Reasons of Induced Demand in Delivering Services to the Insured by Health Insurance: A Case Study in Esfahan, 2013
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Introduction
Induced demand is one of the health challenges of our country. Paid costs by insurance lead to waste of health system resource.Methods
This descriptive- analytical study has been conducted to evaluate induced demand using information of first level services to the insured individuals in 2013. logit model was run by EViews version 7 for analyzing results. In logit mode, two dependent variables including total cost and total time were studied. The final effect of independent variables on these dependent variables was evaluated as a final impact on induced demand.Results
In stipulated model of total cost, type of physicians contract (P=0.0195), physicians age (P= 0.0474) and visit of female patients (PConclusion
Results of this research showed that health policy authorities should imped delivery of unnecessary services and optimize allocation of health resources through adopting a scientific method based on purchasing services by the insurer, approval of standards and rules, and determining logical treatment framework.Keywords:
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Persian
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Journal of Knowledge & Health, Volume:12 Issue: 1, 2017
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1 to 7
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