Vice Chancellery for Health at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences provides health care services to more than 4.6 million people through its Primary Health Care (PHC) system consisting of comprehensive health care centers, health posts, and health houses falling under it, in 23 districts of the province. Out of the said population, just over four million live in urban areas and the rest in rural areas.

To provide health services to people in rural areas, the first step was to recruit and educate people from among the same rural areas through “Health education and promotion programs” as follows:

a) “National Self-Care” and “Each House a Health post” programs: Recruiting and training health volunteers as ambassadors of family (500,000 people till now); organizational self-care, students, health ambassadors and health supportive schools social self-care

b) Conducting fundamental health needs assessment studies; assessment of health of people

c) Implementing health promotion interventions and implementing advocacy for health
d) Management of health education media production

e) Implementation of educational and public information campaigns for health

The service that the educated volunteer ambassadors provided were wide in rang including:

- Family and population programs

- Improving community nutrition

- Environmental health

- Mental health care