The Impact of Health System Reform Plan on NGOs's Activities in Health Sector

Reform in health system aimed to improve healthcare, affected all organizations and institutions (in particular, NGOs) operating in health care services. NGOs in health system, are one of the main players to promote healthcare performance and system. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of Health System Reform plan on NGOs which are active in health sector.
This cross-sectional, descriptive-analytical study was performed during Summer-Autumn 2015. By a stratified-random sampling, 91 health care staffs selected from nine NGOs to fill–in a 27-item questionnaire designed by the researchers. Data analysis was done using structural equation modeling (SEM) and through AMOS Ver22.
According to the results, 67.9% of respondents recoded lower patients’ referral, one year after the implementation of the reform plan in healthcare. Financial saving was the main advantage of this plan. In addition, this reform had positive effects on health services development, financing and resource allocation, healthcare equipment providing, prevention and promotion of health literacy in NGOs.
Healthcare reform plan had a significant positive effect on NGOs activities. It can get benefit from the present potentials for increasing the chance of success of this reform plan in healthcare system through good interaction of healthcare system authorities and NGOs.