Evaluation of managed health care in contagious and non-contagious diseases in Golestan province, northern Iran during 2016

Managed health care is one of the main components of universal health care systems, which recently has drawn more attentions. Therefore, based on the high costs of health system, poor quality of services, reduce efficiency, it is necessary to study and design a model to distinguish managed form unmanaged systems in Iran. This study was done to evaluate the managed health care in contagious and non-contagious diseases in Golestan province, northern Iran during 2016. This descriptive-analytic study was done based on data collected from all urban and rural health centers of Golestan province, north of Iran during 2016 using standard checklists. Data were analyzed according to rural and urban area and type of diseses. Managed health care of tuberculosis was considerd in first rank following by hypothyroidism, leishmaniasis, hypertension, brucellosis and finally diabetes in a respective manner. In addition, managed cares in rural centers significantly had better condition than those of urban centers (P<0.05). This study showed that managed care in rural areas is better than urbans and the tuberculosis has well condition according to managed health care.