Designing a model of administration structure for Iranian women's health development

ABSTRACT

Women's health status and awareness of their biological, mental and social characteristic and needs planning, health system reforms and primary health care, are main priorities in strategic areas of health development. In the past two decades researchers and policymakers have paid special attention to women's health development activities and administration. This article compares the women's health development administration in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Japan as developed countries, with focus on their organizational structures. This article is based on a descriptive and comparative study. The results have been used to design and develop an appropriate and applicable model for women's health administration in Iran. The designed model has been finalized using Delphi Technique. The countries were divided in two categories. United States and Canada had a focused and advanced administration system in their women's health activities. They have strategic in women's health priority issues and special organizational structures which relatively has been successful. United Kingdom and Japan used different policies focused on the mother and children's health and their administrative policies were based on this view. An appropriate structural designed for women's health in Iran was formulated on results of this study