Health Village Cooperative, a Strategy for Sustainable Rural Development

In the literature of rural development, many programs and strategies have already been paid attention by national and international institutions and organizations. Nowadays, in reaching sustainable rural development, the strategy of unified rural development has once again been one of the influential strategies for materializing sustainable development with a newer flavor after a period of indolence. The programs of health village is one the strategies for sustainable rural development. In addition to emphasizing the therapeutic and hygienic issues, these programs have also tackled the other facets of development. The purpose of present study is to introduce the strategy of health village in the frame of cooperatives as a tool to arrive at rural development. To do so, the study has first introduced the strategy in a library research; then, it has surveyed the objectives and approaches of this strategy. Finally, the study has dealt with the common features of this program with cooperative principles in order to implement these programs in cooperative skeleton.