Tabriz University of Medical Sciences Health Promotion Perspectives 2228-6497 5 2 2015 07 07 Population-Level Equity May Not Be Achievable At the First Level of the Iranian Family Physician Program (IFPP) 153 155 10.15171/hpp.2015.018 EN Reza Jourvand Farkhonde Amin Shokravi Journal Article 10.15171/hpp.2015.018 2014 11 18 2015 04 25 According to the current legislation and article 89 of Iran’s Fourth Development Program (I4DP), the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) is responsible for the countrywide planning of health policies. Thus, MOHME with the help of all other organizations that have direct role in provision of health care (e.g. governmental health insurance companies) started to study and compile regulations of referral system and family physi-cian program, introduced later as the "Iranian Na-tional Family Physician Program"(IFPP).