ArticleBMC health services research2025
Challenges faced by the Iranian health system in containing COVID-19: insights from a conventional content analysis.
Article in BMC health services research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Forty Years of Primary Health Care (PHC) in Iran: Achievements, Lessons and Future Directions.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2026Article
- Building Parental Trust in Childhood Vaccination: Lessons From Iran's COVID-19 Response.International journal of health policy and management · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis, and health systems worldwide have faced numerous challenges in containing it. This study aimed to identify the challenges faced by the Iranian health system in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic.
methodsA conventional content analysis approach was employed in this qualitative study. The research sample included experts responsible for managing, making decisions about preventing COVID-19, and caring for and treating patients. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the participants. Data saturation was achieved after 29 interviews. Additionally, conventional content analysis was applied for data analysis.
resultsThe participants in this study identified the most significant challenges faced by Iran's health system in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, including issues related to human resources, physical and organizational structures, financial resources, inter-sectoral collaboration, personal protective equipment (PPE), social responsibility, and information services.
conclusionsIdentifying these challenges can help health system managers prioritize the most critical issues. Addressing these challenges requires more than just the efforts of health systems; cooperation at the macro governance level is essential. Governments should start planning to formulate appropriate strategies.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.