Development of a Policy Model for the Production of Applied Knowledge in Health Management

The health system implements national and regional reforms by developing new policies or reforming the previous policies to respond to the changing needs of society, increasing efficiency, effectiveness, and quality and creating justice. The present study aimed to develop a policy model for producing applied knowledge in health management.

This study was conducted using a qualitative grounded theory method. The qualitative data were collected through in-depth interviews with 15 purposively selected health crisis management specialists and policymaking, public management, innovation management, and industrial management experts in the fall of 2021. The data were analyzed through MAXQDA software.

The most important policymaking indicator was evaluating indigenous knowledge production policies for health crisis management. Training cultural factors in the indigenization of other countries' experiences was the most important indicator in policy education, and missing links in the Ministry of Health were identified as the outcomes of inattention to biological crises. Therefore, the identified indicators can be considered the structural factors of indigenous knowledge production policies for health crisis management.

Following the findings from the qualitative case study, the final model was developed using a set of variables, including the content of indigenous knowledge policy, the process of policies for the production of applied knowledge for health management, the training of policies for the production of applied knowledge for health management, and the structural factors of the policies for the production of applied knowledge for health management.