Induced Demand of Providers of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services in the World; Scoping Review

Induced demand is a major challenge for financing health promotion. Experts have highlighted the important role of health insurance as a driver of demand for doctors even in emerging and advanced world economies. Therefore, the importance of conducting review studies in the country to obtain methods for identifying induced demand is not hidden from anyone.

In this study, articles were searched from English PubMed, Scopus, ProQuest, Cochrane and Web of Science databases.

The findings showed that about 90% of the studies proved the induced demand in diagnostic and therapeutic services with statistical analysis methods and investigating the relationship of variables, and the issue of induced demand is still an important issue in the world.

The structure of insurances is quite effective in the formation of induced demand due to the fundamental role they play in paying health service providers, and the research methods of these articles provide effective perspectives for the country's health policy makers in recognizing and controlling induced demand.