Journal Title: Hakim Journal

Hakim Health Systems Research Journal is the peer reviewed journal published in Persian together with English abstracts since 2005. The journal mission is to publish scientific findings and analyses that increase knowledge necessary to decision makings related to policymaking and management of country's health system. The main topics should have wide ranges including social determinants of health, health systems, assessment of national and regional health programs, resource allocation, and legal aspects of health programs implementations (mentioned topics are merely examples and do not include all domains). The journal publishes original basic, clinical and translational articles and reviews in the above mentioned fields. The target audiences of the journal are policymakers, health system managers, service providers, and all researchers who work in the above-mentioned fields. Hakim Health Systems Research Journal is the official journal of the National Institute of Health Research of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, published & owned by Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
All journal papers are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source.

Copyright Notice
Authors have copyright but license exclusive rights in their article to the publisher *.
Authors have the right to:

• Share their article according to the "Personal Use rights" ** so long as it contains the end user license and the DOI link to the version of record in this journal.
• Retain intellectual property rights (including research data).
• Proper attribution and credit for the published work.

• Use by an author in the author’s classroom teaching (including distribution of copies, paper or electronic)
• Distribution of copies (including through e-mail) to known research colleagues for their personal use (but not for Commercial Use)
• Inclusion in a thesis or dissertation (provided that this is not to be published commercially)
• Use in a subsequent compilation of the author’s works
• Extending the Article to book-length form
• Preparation of other derivative works (but not for Commercial Use)
• Otherwise using or re-using portions or excerpts in other works

Publisher

• Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Sources of Support

• Tehran University of Medical Sciences