A Model of Stakeholder Participation in Public Policymaking in the Food and Drug Administration of the Ministry of Health and Medical

Optimal development and implementation of public policies and policies is done only through the identification and proper participation of stakeholders in the development of public policies. The main purpose of this study is to present a model of stakeholder participation in public policy-making in the health system, in particular the Food and Drug Administration of the Ministry of Health.

In the present study, two qualitative methods of content analysis and structural-interpretive modeling have been used. In the research content analysis section, using interviews with 18 experts, stakeholders, managers and experts working in the Ministry of Health, the basic, organizing and comprehensive themes of stakeholder participation in public policy making were identified and in the next stage using The ISM matrix has been analyzed.

First, by content analysis method, the content network of factors affecting stakeholder participation was extracted with 103 basic themes, 20 organizing themes and 5 comprehensive themes. Then, using structural-interpretive modeling and pairwise communication, the relationships between the overarching themes were discovered and prioritized at four levels.

The final model represents the levels of stakeholder participation framework in public policy-making, including the factors underlying stakeholder participation, stakeholder participation conditions, Factors influencing stakeholders, operating stakeholder participation operating conditions and stakeholder participation outcomes