European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

EXAMINING THE CURRENT STATUS OF HEALTH INSURANCES AND THEIR ROLE IN PROMOTING HEALTH (CASE STUDY: ESFAHAN PROVINCE MEDICAL SCIENCES HOSPITALS)

Zohreh Kazemi, *Parviz Aghayii Barzabad and Shaghayegh Vahdat

ABSTRACT

One of ideal goals of each health system is providing appropriate setups of financial security for supporting families at the time of requesting for health services. Access to health services is among main rights of people in societies. Public coverage of health insurance with reduction of financial obstacles is one of the most important strategies for access to health services. The main aim of performing this study is to examine the current status of health insurances and their role for promoting health. The research method is applied- descriptive that analysis was conducted by distributing scholar-made questionnaire in the statistical population of the present study including all personnel and experts of health insurance and the sample volume corresponding to the statistical population is 350. A glance at previous research shows that the performed studies in this section have generally been case studies and their used tool for assessing health or illness has noticed a limited dimension of health and a special type of illness. Findings of these studies have often obtained based on personal information of the inquired person that performing objectivist studies is necessary due to lack of reasonable and assessable recorded information. In explaining the results obtained from this study, we can say that the more the emphasis on mandatory insurance coverage of population, that is a condition is created where all people of society are forced to be covered by insurance for using treatment services of various treatment centers and hospitals, the more will be the rate of using people from treatment health services and as a result, this will cause promoting health of the society.

Keywords: insurance, health promotion, health system, illness.