جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « mixed method research » در نشریات گروه « علوم سیاسی »

Medical device manufacturing, both plays a key role in providing requirements of health care system and has economic and technological potential of development. This strategic industry can be an effective driver for industrial development and supporting health system of Iran. Efforts for development of domestic production of medical devices, assuming the especial characters of the industry, require more understanding of the factors affecting supporting policies. Here the main question is that, what are the factors and their importances, affecting medical device manufacturing policy-making? Then this research with the aim of identifying and ranking the factors affecting medical device manufacturing policies in Iran was done. This is a mixed research, which is made by a 2-round Delphi method. Also, as an innovation of this research, the specific matrixes of the relations between factors and knowledge of experts were determined. Then, by calculating the fuzzy weighted means of each factor, ranking the factors affecting medical device manufacturing policies as the main result of this paper was presented in two categories: 32 internal and 41 external factors. Finally, the research results are proposed to be used as a base in public policy making and road mapping of medical device industry (MDI) and developing strategies for producers of medical devices in Iran.

Medical tourism is a growing phenomenon in 21th century that has one of fastest growing markets in tourism. Despite Iran's medical tourism capabilities, statistics show a very small market share for the country. Due to good opportunities and increasing international competition in medical tourism on one hand, and not using our capabilities in this industry on the other, this mixed method research aims to identify medical tourism development solutions as well as appropriate measures and policy instruments to implement them in Iran. The study was conducted in two phases. In the 1st phase(qualitative) after interviewing 16 participants, appropriate solutions, measures and instruments were extracted using thematic analysis. On the 2nd phase, statistical tests were used to approve and prioritize solutions as well as to assess the policy instruments according to effectiveness and feasibility measures. According to the results, there are 20 solutions and 37 effective feasible policy measures for medical tourism development in Iran which should be pursued in three areas of "policy making and administrative structures", "medical tourism supply chain" and "medical tourism markets.