Reports Outline Biology and Medical Research Study Findings from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (Legal and policy requirements of basic health insurance package to achieve universal health coverage in a developing country)

Health Policy and Law Daily

2019 OCT 02 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Fresh data on Biology and Medical Research are presented in a new report. According to news reporting originating from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “This study has analyzed the policy-making requirements related to basic health insurance package at the national level with a systematic view.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences: “All the documents presented since the enactment of universal health insurance in Iran from 1994 to 2017 were included applying Scott method for assuring meaningfulness, authenticity, credibility and representativeness. Then, content analysis was conducted applying MAXQDA10. The legal and policy requirements related to basic health insurance package were summarized into three main themes and 11 subthemes. The main themes include three kinds of requirements at three level of third party insurer, health care provider and citizen/population that contains 5 (financing insurance package, organizational structure, tariffing and purchasing the benefit packages and integration of policies and precedents), 4 (determining the necessities, provision of services, rules relating to implementation and covered services) and 2 (expanded coverage of population and insurance premiums) sub themes respectively.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “According to the results, Iranian policy makers should notice three axes of third party insurers, health providers and population of the country to prepare an appropriate basic benefit package based on local needs for all the people that can access with no financial barriers in order to be sure of achieving UHC.”

For more information on this research see: Legal and policy requirements of basic health insurance package to achieve universal health coverage in a developing country. BMC Research Notes, 2019,12(1):1-7. (BMC Research Notes - http://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com). The publisher for BMC Research Notes is BMC.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4618-0.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Ramin Hayati, Student Research Committee, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. Additional authors for this research include Mohammad Javad Kabir, Zahra Kavosi, Peivand Bastani, Ghasem Sobhani, Hamideh Javadinasab.