comparing the current status with desired situation of the quality of education and improvement for rural health workers in iran

Background: rural health workers (behvarz) are considered health- care pioneers standing atthe forefront of providing services for rural areas. those health providers need to be optimallyeducated throughout the country. what can serve this purpose is an integrated high quality“education”.methods: the current descriptive research compared two situations of education quality.to this end 300, rural health workers completed researcher-made questionnaires, including2 dimensions,7 components and, 80 questions obtained from the analysis of the qualitativeprocess through the fuzzy delphi method.results: the results indicated a gap between the current status and desirable situationsof qualitative improvement components of rural health workers’ education. the findingsalso showed that the highest standardized coefficient in the area of education was relatedto the variable of learning and transfer of education with a coefficient of 0.971. in the areaof optimization, the highest standard coefficient for the desirable situation belonged to theinterpersonal and functional relationship variable, with the value of 0.978, while the loweststandardized coefficient was related to the variable of information and communicationtechnology (ict) development as 0.956.conclusion: in brief, optimal education for the health- care providers is considered an integralpart of the health system; therefore, the impact of education on the general health of the peopleshould be taken into consideration. therefore, there is a need for theoretical and practicalexploration of qualitative education towards health system improvement and promotion.