Challenges Resulting from Healthcare induced Demand: a qualitative study

Induced demand is one of the challenges of health care systems in different countries. It increases health care costs and also increases catastrophic cost index. This article seeks to examine the challenges of induced demand with the use of expert’s experiences of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. The research is applied a qualitative method which done in Isfahan in 2012. Semi-structured interview was used for data gathering. For validity and reliability criteria such as data reliability of information and stability were considered. Participants in this study were people who had been informed in this regard and had to be experienced and were known as experts. Purposive sampling was done for data saturation. 17 people were interviewed. The anonymity of the interviewees was preserved. The data are transcribed، categorized and then used the thematic analysis. In this study thematic analysis was conducted and 41 sub-themes and three themes were extracted. The three main themes include insurance organizations challenges، health systems challenges and patient’s challenges. Each of them has some sub-themes. the results of this study provide challenges due to induced demand. The most notable findings include insurance organizations challenges، health care system challenges and patient challenges. These findings will help health policymakers consider challenges to design appropriate strategies to reduce them.