KUMS vice-chancellor for Public Health

The Public Health vice-chancellorship of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences serves as a bridge between the university and the community. It addresses the community's health needs by playing a role in education, preventive actions, and conducting applied research within its scope of work. Based on the responsibilities outlined in the national health system, this vice-chancellorship is involved in planning, guiding, supervising, organizing, and evaluating related programs across the county health centers. Besides its connections with the university's president and other deputies, it maintains direct communication with the Health vice-chancellorship and various departments at the ministry level.

As health is influenced by factors such as sufficient food, adequate housing, lifestyle, protection against environmental hazards, and infectious diseases—and medicine alone is not the only effective knowledge for public health and welfare—the potential of intersectoral collaborations for community health is increasingly recognized. Health pioneers have moved beyond the narrow confines of healthcare services.

 

Mission of the Health vice-chancellorship

The mission of the Health vice-chancellorship is to preserve and enhance public health, increase life expectancy for all members of society by reducing diseases and improving lifestyles, while ensuring and distributing efficient human resources, training health workers, and increasing access to health services in the community. This mission is carried out while drawing inspiration from religious values, preserving national achievements, respecting human dignity, emphasizing social justice, and ensuring customer satisfaction, while recognizing the customs, traditions, and cultures of the community. Empowering people to achieve this mission is the primary focus of their efforts.

Key Objectives of the Health vice-chancellorship

Preparing the necessary hardware and software infrastructure to provide healthcare services, ensuring easy access for the entire population of the province, including urban, rural, and nomadic groups, to appropriate healthcare services.

Providing services to vulnerable groups, including children under six, pregnant and nursing women, the elderly, and others.

Health-oriented planning and offering services to adolescents and young people to enhance their quality of life, with an emphasis on preventive actions that align with the culture, gender, and full participation of this age group.

Improving health indicators, correcting and enhancing people's lifestyles, increasing life expectancy, and reducing the incidence of disease and mortality (reducing the disease burden).

Offering services to vulnerable groups in the community by controlling factors in the living environment that affect physical, mental, and social health.

Providing health services to employees and workers in various sectors, including services, industry, agriculture, mining, and protecting the workforce.

Delivering services aimed at preventing and reducing oral and dental diseases for target groups and the general public.

Empowering the community to recognize factors influencing individual and social health and offering models for a healthy lifestyle to reduce diseases and mortality and create a vibrant life for individuals.

Establishing necessary oversight and support services for controlling diseases, epidemics, and enhancing the quality of laboratory services.

Providing and ensuring pharmaceutical services to networks.

Empowering the community to recognize factors influencing individual and social health and offering models for a healthy lifestyle to reduce diseases and mortality and create a vibrant life for individuals.

Contributing to the improvement of food security and enhancing the nutritional quality of the population by increasing physical and economic access, raising nutrition literacy and culture, and freeing from diseases through measures such as information dissemination, education, participation in formulating new policies in the field of food and nutrition in national and regional development programs, drafting laws and regulations, research, monitoring, and preventive and therapeutic actions within Islamic and human values.

Efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality and provide essential care for newborns, children, adolescents, young adults, middle-aged, and elderly individuals. This management is responsible for designing health interventions, regional policy-making, and overseeing the implementation of priority programs for different age groups and vulnerable populations (mothers, newborns, children, adolescents, middle-aged, and elderly).

Diagnosing and managing common psychiatric disorders, diagnosing and managing tobacco, alcohol, and substance use disorders, implementing harm reduction programs for substance use, reducing social harms (suicide, child abuse, etc.) through capacity building and directing health and treatment networks and services at urban and rural comprehensive service centers, and health houses.

Conducting activities that lead to effective crisis and emergency management, reducing vulnerability for healthcare centers, healthcare staff, and the general public.

The Health vice-chancellorship of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences fulfills its primary role by creating a bridge between the community's health and medical needs on one side, and community-based education at the university on the other, and conducting applied research. Based on the responsibilities outlined in the health system (managed by the Health vice-chancellorship), the vice-chancellorship operates within 15 central units for planning, guiding, supervising, organizing, and evaluating programs at the county health centers (in coordination and cooperation with other university deputies). This vice-chancellorship, in addition to liaising with the university president and other related deputies, is directly connected with the Health vice-chancellorship and the relevant departments (for each central unit) at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education level, receiving support (scientific, financial, etc.), guidance, supervision, and organization from them.