Evaluation of Health Promotion Standards in the Iraqi Teaching Hospitals: A National Survey

Abstract

The objective of this survey is to explore the reality of the the health promotion standards in the governmental teaching hospitals in Iraq. The researchers used the Health Promotion Self-Assessment Questionnaire for Companies to measure the health promotion standards in these hospitals. The study sample included nurses and physicians from 42 hospitals across Iraq. The study findings demonstrated that the vast majority of governmental teaching hospitals in Iraq lack the health promotion standards and considered as nonhealth promoting. The standards of health promotion objectives and health promotion planning had the highest scores. Only two hospitals out of 62 hospitals considered to be health promoting ones.