Tehran University of Medical Sciences Journal of Food Safety and Hygiene 2476-3241 7 2 2022 01 13 121 124 EN Mohammadreza Sheikhy-Chaman Department of Health Economics, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Gholamreza Jahed Khaniki Division of Food Safety and Hygiene, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Ebrahim Molaee-Aghaee Division of Food Safety and Hygiene, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Nader Akbari Division of Food Safety and Hygiene, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Hadi Eghbaljoo-Gharehgheshlaghi Division of Food Safety and Hygiene, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2021 09 14 2021 12 19 Health is one of every individual's fundamental values and needs that are greatly emphasized in divine religions and international documents. The impact of having a healthy society on achieving various goals such as economic growth and development, promoting the quality of life and longer life expectancy have compelled governments to utilize all resources to appropriately respond to the health needs of all demographic groups and provide high quality and affordable health care at all levels of public health, medical and rehabilitation services. This great and vital responsibility has been trusted to health systems. Subsequently, these systems have tried to properly do their commitment to ensuring communities' health, moving towards universal health coverage (UHC), and achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by creating a coordinated, orderly, and purposeful system. Furthermore, they have taken shape various policies and plans for this matter that health financing mechanisms are one of them.   https://jfsh.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jfsh/article/view/326 https://jfsh.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jfsh/article/download/326/165