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Table 1 Characteristics of social health assistance programs for the poor in Iran: coverage population and benefits

From: User fee removal for the poor: a qualitative study to explore policies for social health assistance in Iran

Poor groups

Insurance fund

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Cost-sharing support

Delivery system

Rationing mechanisms

Poor people on the social assistance scheme

Imam Khomeini Relief Committee

Women-headed households, families of needy prisoners, orphans living in urban areas

Other Sectors Fund

100%

subsidized

Supplementary insurance of the relief committee

Family physician and referral system

–

State Welfare Organization

Poor disabled, women-headed households, beggars, street children

Other Sectors Fund

100%

subsidized

Only the disabled have a separate budget line for supplementary insurance in the welfare organization

–

–

Poor rural

Rural Insurance Fund

100%

subsidized

Supplementary insurance of the relief committee plus paying less co-payment for visits and tests in rural health centers

Family physician and referral system

–

Marginalized people, people with informal jobs and insolvent

Universal Health Fund

100%

subsidized

–

Family physician and referral system

Limited to public hospitals