Cost Analysis of Health Care Centers of Sanandaj in 2002

To reach a goal the most economic way must be selected. Different ways including cost-effectiveness and cost – efficiency analysis allow us to reach this purpose. This study was done in 2002 to analyze the cost of Sanandaj health centers services. This study was descriptive and carried out in 16 health centers and 7 health sites. Through interview, observation and by referring to registered documents data was collected and registered in a designed questionnaire. Statistical description including sum of cost, median and Standard deviation of data was done using excel software. Based of analyzing collected data, the average per unit costs of Health family, Midwifery, Vaccination, Environment health, Professional health, physician, Dentist, Injection & Dressing and Pharmacy units during a six months period were 11932, 11205, 10974, 14550, 22514, 18953, 54304, 34825, 19316 rials respectively. By transferring part of health and therapeutic services to private sectors and through appropriate management of human resourses including multi occupation and motivation of personnel the cost of service –unit can be decreased.