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During 23-2011, important progress has been made in health services. The number of intensive care beds has been increased to 2,977 from 2,214, and the number of full-time beds has been increased to 38,272 from 6,839. With only public investments, 544 hospitals and new buildings and 1,467 first step health facilities have been established. While the accessibility to health services and medication was improved, costs were decreased considerably and in this period the number of people who pay their medicine and health expenses themselves decreased to 11.1 percent from 32.1 percent. Protective and fundamental health services were improved considerably during 23-2011. In this period, infant mortality rate was decreased to 0.9 percent from 0.29 percent and mother mortality rate was decreased to 15 per thousand from 61 per thousand. The rate of births at hospitals has been increased to 94 percent from 69 percent; infant monitoring has been increased to 99 percent from 62 percent, and vaccination rate has been increased to 97 percent from 78 percent. As a result of these improvements in health indicators, expected life span at birth has increased to 75 years from 7 years (Fig.5). Figure 5: Infant mortality rate (per thousands) (Morse and McNamara 2009) Health Transformation Program: Health Transformation Program was initiated in 2003 for effective, productive and reasonable health services and to allow financial sustainability for a health organization. Within some of these points; • Family Doctor application was initiated. • The scope of the vaccination program was broadened. • Free mobile health services became available in all country areas. • The scope of newborn screening and support programs were extended. • Free nutrition supplements support for pregnant women and babies were provided. Education Actions and Strategies Important progress has been achieved in the quality and quantity of education sector to improve human funds which is one of the most important concerns of sustainability. Within this border, the proportion of the financial plan allocated from public resources for all stages of education to GDP was 2.25 percent in 2001, this rate enlarged to 3.56 percent in 2011. The biggest distribute in the public budget has been allocated to the education sector for past four years. Moreover, a system was developed which enable side and upright transfers upon on lifelong education standard according to the common and occupational education preferences after major education (Chan and Lee 2008). 384 ZEMCH 2015 | International Conference | Bari - Lecce, Italy