Interpretation of 12th Clause of General Health Policies: Recognition, Explanation, Promotion, Development and Institutionalization of Traditional Persian Medicine

The general health poilices (GHP) that have been announced by the supreme leader of Iran is a systemic and futurographic approach to all fields of Iranian health.  GHP clause 12th: "Interpretation of 12th clause of general health policies: recognition, explanation, promotion, development and institutionalization of traditional Persian medicine" is merely devoted to Persian medicine (PM). The aim of this study was to interpret this clause in a thicktank which is formed by researcher and specialists of PM. In the first step, critical concepts of GHP 12th clause were studied according to the upstream national documents and international search engines and libraries without time limitation. In the second step, in an interview with PM politicians, administerators, specialists and stakeholders, general interventions are gathered, categoried and interpreted. Finally, proposed interventions are presented. Here, 14 concepts of GHP 12th clause are defined and 68 interventions are proposed. In this study, PM related GHP are interpreted in a wide field: promotion, education, research, import, export, technology and production. Such interpretation will result in integration of traditional and conventional medicines, preventing forgery claims in PM and presenting new opportunities for conventional medicine.