THE NEED TO DESIGN INFERTILITY REGISTRY IN IRAN (REVIEW ARTICLE)

Data registration is one of the principal infrastructures of health promotion and social development programs. Infertility is one of the most important medical issues nowadays.
This study has been performed by reviewing electronic and non-electronic information sources to identify the infertility registries in developed countries as first step of national infertility registry design.
Finding: «Infertility Registry» has been performed in five countries systematically. We studied three of them from the view of history¡ structure and facilities.
Despite favorable progress in many health fields and management of data diseases in Iran¡ systematic registration of infertility data based on international standards has been neglected yet.