[Components of clinical preventive services system in a specialized educational hospital: a qualitative approach]

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