International Journal of Health System and Disaster Management

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Year
: 2013  |  Volume : 1  |  Issue : 2  |  Page : 109--114

Estimation of standard and quality of health indices for provinces by totally fuzzy analysis 1


Arashk Masaeli1, Hossein Sadeghi1, Ali Ghanbari1, Mohammad Reza Vaez Mahdavi2, Marzieh Javadi3 
1 Department of Economics, Tarbiat Modares University , Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Physiology, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
3 Health Management and Economics Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

Correspondence Address:
Marzieh Javadi
Health Management and Economics Research Center, Isfahan Univesity of Medical Sciences, Isfahan
Iran

Introduction: With the expansion of new indexes in the area of health, calculation of these indexes has been welcomed by the intellectuals of this area. The present study determines the standard and quality of health in the provinces of Iran. Materials and Methods: The present analytical descriptive survey has used fuzzy logic to calculate the indexes of standard and quality of health, which is very similar to the relative and ambiguous concept of the standard and quality of health. The targeted community is also the provinces and the year of survey is 2007. Results: The calculations show that Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Tehran and Semnan have the highest ranks in terms of the standard of health and Chahrmahal and Bakhtiari, Yazd and Mazandaran have the highest ranks in terms of the quality of health; however, Northern Khorasan, Gilan and Sistan and Baluchestan are the critical provinces in terms of the standard of health and Kurdistan, Tehran and Sistan and Baluchestan are the critical ones in terms of the quality of health. Conclusions: The findings of Pearson�SQ�s correlation coefficient show that there is a meaningful relationship between the indexes of human development and standard of health at the level of 0.005 as well as between the indexes of standard and quality of health at the level of ten percent; whereas no relationship exists between income per capita and the quality and standard of health which seems that in provinces level it is logical.


How to cite this article:
Masaeli A, Sadeghi H, Ghanbari A, Mahdavi MV, Javadi M. Estimation of standard and quality of health indices for provinces by totally fuzzy analysis 1.Int J Health Syst Disaster Manage 2013;1:109-114


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Masaeli A, Sadeghi H, Ghanbari A, Mahdavi MV, Javadi M. Estimation of standard and quality of health indices for provinces by totally fuzzy analysis 1. Int J Health Syst Disaster Manage [serial online] 2013 [cited 2024 Mar 28 ];1:109-114
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