Requirements for public-private partnership in Iran’s health system: A document analysis study

Health systems throughout the world are facing numerous challenges and governmental sections in most countries are facing shortages of resources. Public/ private partnership in the health section is one of the methods to overcome the shortcomings and challenges, however, to run it effectively and efficiently all tools must be recognized and applied. The “Read” approach is a systematic and flexible way to congregate data used to analyze documents, including four steps; (1) ready your materials, (2) extract data, (3) analyze data and (4) distill your findings. To analyze the data, the Maxqda20 software was used in the thematic analytic method.

38 documents were studied in three categories; superior documents, support, and health. All requirements for public/private partnership were divided into 5 main themes fundamental, technical, directional, legal, and financial which also were divided into 23 sub-themes. For a successful public-private partnership, a set of Fundamental, legal, financial, and stakeholder concerns must be considered. In this study, fundamental requirements were given the most attention and it was considered in all documents. Given the rapid speed of changes in the health sector and the numerous challenges accompanied, in order to take over these problems, dynamic structures and policies have to be identified and edited. In addition, outsourcing to other institutions can potentially help solve these challenges with less cost and less utilization of resources.