Faith and spirituality are the foundations of sustainability during crises. This important matter pursues four strategic axes: First, commitment to religious and ethical values through teaching spirituality, ensuring health equity via a social determinants approach, eradicating poverty and deprivation, and combating conflicts of interest, extravagance, and rent-seeking; Second, structural and managerial requirements including the development and completion of the health care network, the integration of education and research into that network, fundamental transformation in health sciences education toward community-orientation and accountability, recruitment of competent full-time managers, strengthening inter-sectoral collaboration, and strategic transformation in health research; Third, health economic strategies such as establishing sustainable financial resources and resilient financing mechanisms, full coverage of basic health needs by insurance, reforming pharmaceutical policies with a focus on domestic production, full implementation of the generic plan, elimination of brand-name drugs, self-sufficiency in the supply of medicines and equipment, financial transparency, insurance system reform, use of appropriate technologies, utilization of robust scientific evidence, standardization of traditional Persian medicine, and macro-level health monitoring using standard indicators; and Fourth, people-centered strategies including maximizing health literacy and culture, enhancing cohesive public participation in needs assessment, planning, implementation, and monitoring, and promoting a healthy lifestyle based on the Islamic‑Iranian model. This statement emphasizes the unavoidable necessity of a "health resistance economy" as the tangible realization of social resilience in the health sector, and introduces the full implementation of the general health policies articulated by the Supreme Leader as its foundation. Furthermore, by stressing the sustainability and steadfastness of the health system and all its actors under all circumstances, especially during crises, it asserts that achieving a health resistance economy requires simultaneous commitment to Islamic‑human values, structural reforms, economic empowerment, and active public participation. |
