Strategic Points of Iranian Health Financial Reform Applying Shanonnʹʹs Entropy Model

Background: This research intends to evaluate the most important strategic points after performing the first phase of financial reforms of Iranian health care system by classifying and ranking the most important weak points for policy makers and enabling them to remove or reduce these weaknesses for changing into strength points as well. Methods: The present study was applied in three separated continuous qualitative, quantitative and mathematical phases applying thematic analysis for extracting the main weak points, Shanonnʹs Entropy and simple additive weighted (SAW) for ranking and classifying the most important mentioned weaknesses. Results: There were 35 main weak points regarding the expert views. Applying Shanonnʹs Entropy, “Lack of information of master managers about any advantages of new financial reform” has selected as the most important option with the highest weight of 0.060 and categorized as the first rank using SAW, in contrast, “Non-justice distribution of equipment” had the lowest weigh of 0.001 and also the last rank (33rd ). Conclusion: Any efforts for removing these obstacles and reducing of mentioned limitations could be useful in providing required space for future phases of reforms and calculation of unit cost, operational budgeting and management of costs and productivity.