Abstract:Background:
Forecasting the future trend of health expenditures is an important step to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030. This study aimed to examine the two decades underlying historical trends in Iran’s health expenditures and explore these data as the grounds for forecasting its health expenditures.
Methods:
Iran’s health spending data spanning 2001–2019 were extracted from the National Health Account 2020 database. Total health expenditure, government, prepaid private, and out-of-pocket spen… Show more
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