ABSTRACT:
Introduction & Objective: Nowadays the Health services Unit have limitation in resources in many countries. Thus managers of Health Unit have to attend to limitation resources. According to economic science making use of facilities, equipments and maximum productivity of them is one of principals Health & Medication management system .So managers for doing this issue must use cost – benefit, cost – effectiveness and cost – analysis as the best way for receiving to the goals of organization. This study was done in order to Cost – Analysis in Health& Medication services in Health sector of Kogiluyeh & Boyrahmad Province.
Materials & Methods: This was a descriptive, cross-sectional and prospective study which was performed in 2003. The cases study include : 3 District Health Centers 25 Urban & Rural Health Centers and 131 Health Houses were selected by random selection procedure. The way to gather data was use of the report forms of Health and Cure system , Data resulted from the present study were analyzed by SPSS soft ware .
Results: Based on the results of this study : In Health houses, public participation and mass education had a maximum cost and first aids had a minimum cost. In Rural and Urban Health Centers dental scaling had maximum cost drug and family planning had minimum cost. Among Urban Health centers the maximum cost was related to Gachsaran district and minimum cost was related to Bourahmad district . Among Rural Health centers and Districts Centers the maximum cost belonged Kogilouyeh district and Bourahmad had the minimum cost . But the cost of Health House , Bourahmad had maximum cost and Kohgilouyeh had the minimum cost .
Conclusion: The study say that the services, which have more
frequency and time less their cost - price will be less. Thus managers and experts of Health Unit in the line and staff in short and long planning change their methods to give services. But they mustn’t eliminate every service even expensive services.