Sustainable political commitment is necessary for institutionalizing community participation in health policy-making: Insights from Iran

https://urdc.tums.ac.ir//article/Sustainable-political-commitment-is-necessary-for-institutionalizing-community-participation-in-health-policy–making:-Insights-from-Iran

Background Community participation is currently utilized as a national strategy to promote public health and mitigate health inequalities across the world. While community participation is acknowledged as a civic right in the Constitution of Iran and other related upstream documents, the government has typically failed in translating, integrating and implementing community participation in health system policy. The present study was conducted to determine the level of public voice consideration