Hospital beds (per 1,000 people)_

Event_Log

1. 012010Targeted Subsidies Reform Law implementedAssociation

   Energy prices raised 3-9x and bread prices doubled; ~90% of households enrolled in a monthly cash-transfer program (~$45/person), one of the largest unconditional cash-transfer schemes in the world, costing ~10% of GDP in 2010.

   Why this link: Hospital-bed capacity, roughly flat at 1.5-1.65 per 1,000 for the 2001-2011 decade, began a sustained climb after 2012, reaching 1.93 by 2018 -- plausibly linked to health-sector investment financed in part by subsidy-reform-era fiscal reallocation and the subsequent 2014 Health Transformation Plan (Tarh-e Tahavol-e Salamat), which expanded public hospital capacity and insurance coverage nationally.

   Caveat: The series shows an unexplained dip to 1.32 in 2011 (down from 1.64 in 2010, back to 1.65 in 2012) that looks more like a data-reporting break than a real one-year capacity cut, which weakens confidence in reading this specific window too literally. The 2014 Health Transformation Plan is arguably a more direct and better-known cause of the post-2012 rise than the 2010 subsidy reform specifically, but is not itself a separate dated row in this project's timeline -- a genuine gap.

   Lag: gradual, 2012-2019Source: IMF Working Paper — Iran: The Chronicles of the Subsidy Reform