Iran Medical Council Journal of Iranian Medical Council 2645-338X 8 4 2025 09 08 The Reform Process of Mental Health Services Within Iran’s Primary Health Care (PHC) System: What has been Accomplished and What Remains to be Done 880 882 228708 http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/jimc.v8i4.19558 EN Hadi Zarafshan TUMS Autism Lab, Psychiatry and Psychology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Mohammadreza Shalbafan Mental Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 0000-0002-4536-3441 Journal Article 2025 03 01 <strong>Dear Editor,</strong><br />The integration of mental health services into the Primary Health Care (PHC) system began in the early 1980s in Iran. This, in part, was a response to the pervasive mental health problems related to the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) and the broader socioeconomic hardships of the period (1). With the demand for accessibility and affordability of the services within mental health care, the government needed to integrate mental health within the already established Primary Health Care (PHC) system in a bid to guarantee access to fundamental health services throughout the country (1). https://www.jimc.ir/article_228708_0758e444018b0f58dbb4df1b3bad3c22.pdf