Sustainable political commitment is necessary for institutionalizing community participation in health policy-making: Insights from Iran.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community participation is currently utilized as a national strategy to promote public health and mitigate health inequalities across the world. While community participation is acknowledged as a civic right in the Constitution of Iran and other related upstream documents, the government has typically failed in translating, integrating and implementing community participation in health system policy. The present study was conducted to determine the level of public voice consideration within the health policy in Iran and address fundamental interventions required to promote the public voice in the context of Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). This study has originality because there is no study that addresses the requirements of institutionalizing community participation esp

SUBMITTER: Rahbari Bonab M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10863295 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature