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Developing a Policymaking Model for Empowering the Insured of the Iran Health Insurance Organization
Masoud Pakniyat Rad, Mohammadbagher Tajeddin, Karam Habibpour Gatabi,
Volume 5, Issue 2 (8-2022)
Abstract
Introduction: The present study seeks to design a health insurance empowerment model so that the insured can achieve an acceptable level of capabilities. The reason for choosing this group of insured persons is their large and considerable population in the country, which now include about 50% of Iran’s population.
Methods: The methodological approach of this research is qualitative and based of the grounded theory, deep and semi-structured interview data retrieval techniques. For data mining, the theoretical coding method was used, which aims to achieve the main and secondary categories in line with the theoretical model setting. The sample number is 15 health insurance experts who were selected purposefully.
Results: The results show that the central phenomenon is community-oriented empowerment, which is based on causal conditions, contextual conditions, intervening conditions and strategies. The most important strategies are the right of the insured to access insurance services and opportunities. In the discussion of background conditions, important elements such as agency, sense of equality and inclusion (integration) and capacity building are emphasized. Also, the findings show that components such as maintaining the rights of the insured, enabling resources and the efficiency and quality of insurance services are considered as causal conditions.
Conclusion: According to the findings of the present study, three main categories of education and information, social participation and social support have been proposed as intervening conditions. Completing the chain of the paradigm model of the present study is based on the data theory method of the Consequences Foundation, which analysed the empowerment in four main sections of social empowerment, cultural empowerment, economic empowerment and psychological empowerment of the insured.

Reflecting on the Theoretical Formations of Social Security
Zohreh Shahbazi, Karam Habibpour Gatabi, Mostafa Azkia,
Volume 5, Issue 3 (10-2022)
Abstract
Despite the impact of theoretical approaches explaining the concept of social security on the social security system, often in Iran, this concept does not have an independent status in sociological analysis and its theoretical analysis is reductionist and is usually considered as an economic concept. After reviewing and explaining the existing theories, the formation of theories was presented based on the three models of welfare state, good governance and governmantality. Their review reveals differences around the two issues of perceiving the power and purpose of social security. In the approaches of welfare state and good governance, power is understood in a structuralist, non-historical and hierarchical way. It is responsible for the implementation of social security programs But in the governance approach, it is understood as a special way of exercising power and governing over oneself and citizens to optimize living standards.Also, the critical evaluation of these theoretical models implies that the approaches that have considered social security as a text and discourse, with a critical, historical and discourse approach, unveil the values, assumptions and ideological dimensions and political rationality of social security. And they have more explanation.

Sociological study of the Empowerment of Insured Persons of Iran Health Insurance Organization: Identifying and Prioritizing Influencing Factors
Masoud Pakniyat Rad, Mohammadbagher Tajeddin, Karam Habibpour Gatabi,
Volume 6, Issue 1 (Spring 2023)
Abstract
Introduction: Despite the importance of the issue of empowerment, insurance organizations in Iran do not seek to empower their insureds due to reasons such as the lack of clarity in the meaning and concept, ignorance of the involved and influential factors, and the lack of scientific and functional status. For this reason, the present study was carried out to identify and prioritize the factors affecting the empowerment of the insured of the Iran Health Insurance Organization.
Methods: This study was conducted using a mixed method with a sequential design (first the qualitative Delphi method and then the quantitative survey method) and the participation of 15 health insurance and empowerment specialists in the Delphi method and the participation of 414 insured people of the health insurance organization. In accordance with each of the mentioned methods, sampling and validation methods were also used. Exploratory factor analysis technique was used to discover factors and Friedman’s test was used to compare factors.
Results: After determining 60 important variables and identifying 10 main factors influencing the empowerment of the insured, which are: self-reliance, job satisfaction, feeling of alienation, social health, decision-making power, health education, access to services health and treatment, quality of life relationships, power of foresight and improvement of the level of health-oriented attitude, it was found that “improvement of the level of health-oriented attitude” and “power of foresight” had the greatest and least effect on the empowerment of Iran’s health insurance policyholders, respectively.
Conclusion: The insured people of the Iran Health Insurance Organization believe that in order to empower the insured people, the level of attitude of all levels involved in this field should be improved and “health-oriented approach” should be replaced by “treatment-oriented” in the society.

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