A SWOT analysis of the development of health technology assessment in Iran

Masoud Behzadifar; Mahboubeh Khaton Ghanbari; Samad Azari; Ahad Bakhtiari; Sara Rahimi; Seyed Jafar Ehsanzadeh; Naser Sharafkhani; Salman Moridi; Nicola Luigi Bragazzi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0283663

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A SWOT analysis of the development of health technology assessment in Iran

Masoud Behzadifar ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: masoudbehzadifar@gmail.com, behzadifar@lums.ac.ir

Affiliation Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0271-4360

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Mahboubeh Khaton Ghanbari,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Health Management Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Samad Azari,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliations Research Center for Emergency and Disaster Resilience, Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, Iran, Hospital Management Research Center, Health Management Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Ahad Bakhtiari,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Health Equity Research Center (HERC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Sara Rahimi,

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran
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Seyed Jafar Ehsanzadeh,

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation English Language Department, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Naser Sharafkhani,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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Salman Moridi,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Health Management Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Nicola Luigi Bragazzi

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (LIAM), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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A SWOT analysis of the development of health technology assessment in Iran

Masoud Behzadifar,
Mahboubeh Khaton Ghanbari,
Samad Azari,
Ahad Bakhtiari,
Sara Rahimi,
Seyed Jafar Ehsanzadeh,
Naser Sharafkhani,
Salman Moridi,
Nicola Luigi Bragazzi

Published: March 30, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283663

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