AU - Bagheri Lankarani, Kamran AU - Alavian, Seyed Moyed AU - Peymani, Payam TI - Health in the Islamic Republic of Iran, challenges and progresses PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - MJIRI JN - MJIRI VO - 27 VI - 1 IP - 1 4099 - http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1741-en.html 4100 - http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1741-en.pdf SO - MJIRI 1 AB  - Précis:This debate article highlights some charac-teristics, progresses and challenges of the Iranian health system. Integration of medical education and health service provision, con-trol of some important communicable and non-communicable disease, some health ini-tiatives and health financing system have been discussed from the viewpoint of ex-managers of the system. CP - IRAN IN - Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. Shiraz, Iran. LG - eng PB - MJIRI PG - 42 PT - Debate Article YR - 2013