Iran's health insurance ecosystem: challenges and strategies.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Identifying and exploiting stewardship and financing challenges in Iran's health insurance system as an ecosystem is essential to achieving predetermined goals. This study aimed to determine the challenges and strategies in the Iranian health insurance ecosystem to provide relevant evidence to healthcare managers and policymakers to improve its functions and perform necessary reforms.

Method

This qualitative study was conducted at the national level in Iran. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and analyzed using the directed content analysis method. The study participants included managers and experts in health insurance and faculty of universities of medical sciences, who were selected by purposive sampling.

Results

The challenges and st

SUBMITTER: Rahimisadegh R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11389450 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature