Author/Authors :
Jourvand، Reza نويسنده Department of Health Education, Health Faculty, Ilam University of, Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran , , Amin Shokravi، Farkhonde نويسنده Department of Health Education, Faculty of Medicine, TarbiatModarres University, Tehran, Iran ,
Abstract :
According to the current legislation and article 89 of Irans Fourth Development Program (I4DP), the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) is responsible for the countrywide planning of health policies. Thus, MOHME with the help of all other organizations that have direct role in provision of health care (e.g. governmental health insurance companies) started to study and compile regulations of referral system and family physi-cian program, introduced later as the "Iranian Na-tional Family Physician Program"(IFPP).
