How health care system in Iran works?

Question

Is it a social model?Is it free to all? Or is it you pay for all services?How about hospitalisation?How it is covered?Is gov covers all?

Answer 1

It was to be a social model. That's why the main health insurance plan used to be social security health insurance that is currently covering 20% of the population.
90 percent of outpatient healthcare is in private sector and is totally unregulated.
Most hopitals are in public sector but the number of private hospitals are increasing in large cities.

65% of total health care expenditure is coming out of people's pocket.

Primary preventive healthcare in rural areas is for free and is a very efficient system. More than 40000 community healh workers (Behvarz in Farsi) are working with the PHC net work.

Some 75% of the population are covered at least by one sort of healthcare insurance plan but the problem is inefficient insurance policies.

When you get hospitalized and hold an insurance plan you have to pay your copayment which is not a big money. Private hospitals only accept insurance plans from people whose oraganization has a contract with that hospital.

I hope these pieces of information help you figure out how the system works.

Answer 2

Health care in Iran (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

According to the Iranian Constitution, the government is required to provide every citizen of the country with access to social security that covers retirement, unemployment, old age, disability, accidents, calamities, health and medical treatment and care services. This is covered by public revenues and income derived from public contributions.

Today the largest healthcare delivery network is owned and run by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) through its network of health establishments and medical schools in the country. MOHME is in charge of provision of healthcare services through its network, medical insurance, medical education, supervision and regulation of the healthcare system in the country, policymaking, production and distribution of pharmaceuticals, and research and development. Additionally, there are other parallel organisations such as Medical Services Insurance Organizations (MSIO) that have been established to act as a relief foundation as well as an insurance firm.

With a population of almost 70 million, Iran is one of the most populous countries in the Middle East. The country faces the common problem of other young demographic nations in the region, which is keeping pace with growth of an already huge demand for various public services. Fifty per cent of Iran’s population are currently under 20 years old. Soon they will be old enough to start new families, which will boost the population growth rate and subsequently the need for public health infrastructures and services.

The World Health Organization ranks Iran's health level 93rd among the world's nations. The health status of Iranians has improved over the last two decades. Iran has been able to extend public health preventive services through the establishment of an extensive Primary Health Care network. As a result child and maternal mortality rates have fallen significantly, and life expectancy at birth has risen remarkably. Infant (IMR) and under-five (U5MR) mortality have decreased to 28.6 and 35.6 per 1,000 live births respectively in 2000, compared to an IMR of 122 per 1,000 and an U5MR of 191 per 1,000 in 1970.

The total market value of Iran’s health and medical sector was almost US$240 billion in 2002 and is forecasted to rise to US$310 billion by 2007. The following are short reviews on sub-sectors of this market.

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Answer 3

its free