Editor’s Welcome
Journal Title: Evidence Based Health Policy, Management & Economics - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
The increasing adoption of policies, management, and economics’ knowledge in the health system has necessitated the need to provide related studies’ results to researchers and enthusiasts of this realm. In this regard, international journals play a major and key role in the process of recording, publishing, and promoting level of such researches. They also are required to pave the way for development of the relationship between researchers of policy making, management, and health economics. With God’s grace and efforts of my colleagues in Yazd Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Journal of Evidence Based Health Policy, Management & Economics has started publishing from March 2017. This journal’s aim is to publish the latest research achievements in the field of evidence-based policy making, management, and health economics. Journal of Evidence Based Health Policy, Management & Economics is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, and open access journal published by Health Policy Research Center, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. JEBHPME is intended to enhance communication among health system researchers, policy and decision makers, legislators, practitioners, educators, healthcare managers, administrators, students, and other allied health professionals in the research and healthcare delivery systems. The Journal publishes papers in all fields of Health Management, Health Policy, Health technology assessment, public health, comparative studies in the field of health, business communication in health care, and health Economic. Hereby, we invite all professors, researchers, students, and enthusiasts of policy making, management, and health economics to help us in achieving our target by sending their valuable manuscripts. We welcome constructive suggestions to improve the overall quality of the JEBHPME. Looking forward to see your comments and manuscripts.
Time Series Analysis of Determinants of Health Care Expenditure in Iran: A Bound Test Cointegration Approach
Background: specifying the determinants of healthcare expenditure is one of the most important challenges in the health sector. The current study was aimed to assess factors affecting government health care expenditure i...
The Relationship between Nurses' Five Personality Traits and Organizational knowledge with their Job Performance in 2016 Case Study: A Trauma Hospital
Background: In today competitive world, human work force has always been a concern for organizations, especially healthcare providers, and organizations are always looking for improving their employees' job performance....
Differentiation of Out-of-Pocket Expenditures in Cancer Patients; A Case Study in the Cancer Institute of Iran
Background: The Cancer Institute of Iran, located in Tehran (Iran’s capital city), is a national specialized center for cancer. Cancer patients from all over the country refer to it. This study compared the out-of-pocket...
Estimation of Iran’s Life Insurance Demand Function using Panel Data Method from 2006 to 2014
Background: Insurance industry is recognized as a major economic entity. Development of insurance, and particularly life insurance, is among the necessities of industrial societies as this plays a substantial role in rei...
Prediction of Patient Readmission by LACE Index components at Cardiac Care Unit of an Iranian Hospital: A Cohort Study
Background: One approach to improve efficiency in health care is to identify patients with high risks of readmission so that resources should be distributed in a way they would benefit targeted care. A model named LACE (...