Health service cooperative companies: strengths and weaknesses

Private and public sector have been partnership for health promotion. Several organizations have been innovation in this respect. It seems that multypotential organizations are more successful than others. This study has performed for determining of weakness and strength points in health cooperative companies. This study has done in tow sections. First all of documents and evaluating checklists gathered and data were extracting. Then descriptive view points of managers and performance officersgathered in data sheets. Based on gathered data they said mostimportant weaknesses were percapita rate, little support of health planners and how to share benefits. Most important strengths that they said were public interest, stakeholder satisfaction, accessibility and quality of services.It seems that improving the health cooperative companies performance can apply by revising the process of provider selection and long term contracts and trend based evaluation.