Evaluating the perception of martyr's parents of access to the services of health monitoring plan provided by Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affair of 10 and 11 districts of Tehran in 2014

Facilitating people’s access to necessary health services is one of the most important strategies to reach social justice within countries’ health system. Therefore in-time access to health cares and ensuring desirable results are essential. This study was conducted to evaluate the perception of martyrs’ parents of accessing the services of health monitoring plan.
This descriptive-analytic (cross-sectional) study was conducted on 246 parents of martyrs under the supervision of Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affair of 10 and 11 districts of Tehran who used the services of health monitoring plan; samples were selected through simple randomized sampling. Data gathering tool was a researcher-made questionnaire that contained two parts of demographic characteristics with 18 items and perception of access with 20 items. Data were analyzed using SPSS 16, descriptive statistics, Fisher’s test and Chi-square test.
Results showed that 92.3% of the parents had a medium perception of access to the services of health monitoring plan. Also evaluating different dimensions of access showed that the perception of martyrs’ parents in the dimensions of accessibility and affordability was poor and were respectively 75.2% and 73.2%.
It is necessary to improve the accessibility and affordability dimensions of access among martyrs’ parents.