ABSTRACT
Introduction: At first conference of health promotion in Ottawa in 1986, rearrangement of health providing services, especially hospitals, was introduced as a main strategy in health promotion. Health promoting hospitals project had been also proposed by the World Health Organization a decade before. According to the project, hospitals should have health promoting and disease preventing activities. In Iran, preventive services have not been defined as hospitals tasks and most efforts in hospitals are for medical treatment and rehabilitation. The purpose of this study was to recognize various components of clinical preventive services in Taleghani hospital in Tehran
Methods: In this qualitative study, 20 professionals and experts were interviewed using purposive sampling. Data were analyzed using content analysis
Results: Main themes extracted from the interviews consisted of: 1] challenges and barriers of clinical preventive services; 2] role of clinic of prevention in hospitals; 3] human recourses; 4] information recourses; 5] insurance system; 6] receiving and perusing patients; and 7] educating personnel
Conclusion: Providing preventive services is a perspective of future hospitals. Important necessities for implementation of these services in our country are description of the service packages, designing necessary structures, and training human recourses in this field