The Patient Safety Culture from the Viewpoint of Staffs Working in the Selected Hospital of Yazd University of Medical Sciences in 2018

• Main Authors: samaneh mirzaei, adel eftekhari, Fatemeh GHAZANFARI, Mahmood KAZEMINASAB, Roohangiz NOROUZINIA
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences 2019-02-01
• Series: Bihdāsht-i Kār va Irtiqā-yi Salāmat
• Subjects: Health expenditure; Labor productivity; Generalized method of moments; Mankiw; Romer and Weil model
• Online Access: http://ohhp.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-135-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1

Introduction: Increase of the human capital and the quality of human resources due to the development of health level is one of the important factors in economic growth, which leads to productivity increase at constant levels of inputs. Methods: In this study the panel data of 30 provinces was used in 2005 -2013. These data were obtained from the regional data of statistics center of Iran using the estimates of Mankiw, Romer, and Weil models by data panel method and generalized method of moments.   Data analysis was performed using Spss22 and Eviews 8 software. Results: The results showed that public health expenditures had a greater effect on the labor productivity than the private health expenditures. In this regard, per 100 rials increase in private and public health expenditures, the productivity increases by 0.75 rials and 27.4 rial, respectively. Conclusion: The private health expenditures has treatment applications and public health expenditure has sanitary applications. Furthermore, the heath expenditure has high cost for some families. SO, the government must reduce the total cost of health to increase the labor productivity.