The Apprehensions of Health Schools in Interacting with Health Vice-Presidency and the Industry Sector: A Qualitative Study

Schools of health sciences play an important role in public health by training the workforce and the development of scientific work. However, several factors can threaten the position and status of these centers and disrupt their interactions with executive-industrial environments. Since no comprehensive study has been conducted on the barriers facing the schools of health sciences, this study is conducted with the objective to identify the concerns of the schools of health sciences for interaction with executive-industrial environments.

In this study, the conversation flow of 20 specialists and heads of the schools of health sciences of Iranian type 1 universities was filmed at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran in summer 2018; the conversations were handwritten and then typed word for word; they were then analyzed by content analysis method.

As a result of data analysis, the related factors were classified into two main categories: 1) challenges and needs of interaction with health deputies, 2) challenges and needs of interaction with industry, which the latter itself included four categories.

For the first time, the present study achieved some important results on the categorization of a set of challenges and needs related to the interactions with the health deputy office, as well as the interactions with the office of industrial relationships as the barriers to the operations of the universities and the operational environments. Therefore, the above results can be used as a guideline for designing comprehensive programs to remove barriers to communication and interaction at the schools of health sciences with their offices of health deputy and industrial relationships.