Volume 7, Issue 1 (Spring 2024)                   Iran J Health Insur 2024, 7(1): 62-72 | Back to browse issues page

Research code: 1402.225
Ethics code: IR.TUMS.SPH.REC.1402.225

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Yaghoubi M, Meskarpou-Amiri M. Investigating the Growth Trend of Health Insurance Scientific Productions in Iran and the World During the Last Two Decades. Iran J Health Insur 2024; 7 (1) :62-72
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1- National Center for Health Insurance, Tehran, Iran
2- Health Management Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , mailer.amiri@gmail.com
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Introduction: The number of scientific publications is the most important quantitative indicator of the development and progress of any country. The purpose of this study is to investigate the growth trend of scientific productions in the field of health insurance in Iran and the world during the last two decades.
Methods: The present study was a quantitative and applied study with a scientometric approach. Certain criteria were considered for extracting articles in the Scopus database, which included: publication date (2000-2024), scientific originality of the findings (originality of the article), the presence of the main keywords of health insurance in the title or keyword of the article. In order to describe the publication status of health insurance articles, dispersion indices and trend analysis were used in Excel 2017 software.
Results: Scientific publications in the field of health insurance follow an upward trend as a polynomial function with degree 2 (R2=0.96). The United States published 46% of articles in the field of health insurance, with a significant difference compared to other countries. After that, Germany with 5% and England with 3% contributed the most in publishing articles. In terms of the number of articles, Iran was ranked 201st.
Conclusion: Universal coverage of health insurance in Iran provides a good capacity for the dissemination of experiences in this field in Iran, with detailed planning and existing scientific capacities, the dissemination of experiences related to the issue of health insurance will be promoted.
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2024/04/8 | Revised: 2024/08/21 | Accepted: 2024/06/5 | ePublished: 2024/08/6

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