Discrimination and Dissatisfaction among Nurses Is a Threat for Objectives of Policies?

Upon the arrival of Rouhani’s government in 2013 and in line with his presidential election manifest, the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MoHME) initiated a series of reforms, so-called Iran’s Health Transformation Plan (HTP), with three main goals: (a) promotion of financial protection; (b) increasing equity in access to health services; and (c) improving quality of health services. Accordingly, to meet the above mentioned, such interventions as reducing the out-of-pocket payments for inpatient services (from around previous 60%); improving the quality of medical and non-medical services; promoting the natural delivery; increasing the accessibility to specialists in deprived areas (through public hospitals), and updating of the relative value units (RVU) of tariffs were introduced.