نشریه تامین اجتماعی
سال سیزدهم شماره 1 (پیاپی 46، بهار 1394)

This paper is a meta-analysis on the studies in field of social welfare in Iran. main question of this paper is: What are characteristics of Iranian papers and which issues are covered welfare studies in Iran are referring to what issues. The main objective of performing this meta-analysis is to investigate the researching background of welfare in order to know the common points and differences of studies in the field of welfare in Iran and to achieve general and applied results, and new approaches to welfare and welfare studies. The statistical community of this research is 54 welfare studies (scientific-research papers) in the recent 14 years (2001-2014). The most important variables studied in this research are including: the study field of papers, theoretical approaches of them, type of researches, methodology of researches, the components of social welfare which has been considered in papers, data gathering techniques, sampling methods, data analysis techniques, analysis unit, statistical community or objective groups and findings of papers. Some of the most important findings of this study are including: The descriptive-analytical (quantitative-qualitative) character of most researches, concentration on individuals as analysis unit, preferring the econometric methods to other methods, issue based and timebased weakness, unspecified state of statistical community or objective groups coupled with weakness in sampling in a large number of studies, limited theoretical aspect and economic approach of many studies in the field of social welfare in Iran. Whereas , this paper focuses on conducted papers in special period, the result do not necessarily notify the whole research condition in this field.

Increases in life expectancy and reductions in fertility rate in last decades have lead to population aging in many countries worldwide. Accordingly, in many developed and developing countries pension schemes have faced with too much difficulty in financing their pension liabilities. In response to this difficulty that is called “Pension Crisis”, many of them started to reform their pension schemes, either structurally or only parametrically. Similar to any other kind of reform, pension reform has its own political economy too. Political economy of pension reform explores to recognize major players in the process of reform and investigates how their interests’ affect both speed and nature of the reform. In practice, pension reform look likes a redistribution policy that transfers resources between different groups. Knowing about political economy of pension reform would help policymakers to understand the reform process better for designing a more implementable reform.

Decreasing fertility rate and the rising of life expectancy has caused funding of public pension schemes with severe problems in many countries. Increasing future promises in the old PAYG system while paying little attention to income strategies and investment threatens the sustainability of pension funds. As result, in previous years many countries have carried out major reforms in their pension systems and the way of financing them. In our country, however, the reforms have been postponed for various economic and political reasons. This paper reviews the current funding situation of Iran’s social security and discusses future challenges. The main conclusion emphasizes on urgent and critical reforms whose deferment exacerbates the situation and makes any improvement in funding of pension liabilities more difficult.

Health tourism is an organized excursion made for physical or mental health recovery. The main goals of the health tourism are treatment and rehabilitation. A health package for the patients generally includes not only receiving medication, but also leisure activities. At present research which is descriptive and based on content analysis, an attempt is made to strategically analyze Iran’s social security organization’s plans on health tourism using SWOT method. The findings of the research are suggestive of the fact that the organization would be able to achieve breakthroughs in health tourism and hence obtain sensible revenues to pay for the pensioners and compensate for its deficits provided that it takes health tourism as its dominant strategy and prepares the grounds for it including investment in medicalstandards and international hospitals, boosting the communicative competence of the human resources belonging to the hospitals owned by the said organization, planning for welcoming foreign health tourists through marketing in target countries, and finally creating multilingual information centers and infrastructures to introduce the capabilities and the costs of the hospitals.

From the article 1011 on, at the Civil Code and 126th article of the Non-litigious Matter Act (1319) deals with presumed death of person that his life and his death is unknown In these rules, absent person has specific definitions and provisions. One of the effects of missing person is the possibility of seizing heirs on property of missing person. The additional note to article 80 of the Social Security Law (1387) mentioned to the absence pensioner that has been disabled and retired. Accordingly, if his/her life and death is unknown for at least 6 months, his/her eligible survivors become entitled to require and receive pension or their other legal rights temporarily. In this study, we will analyze its specific effects at social security law with a brief comparison by the provisions of the Civil Code.

Regulations governing social security issues regulate the relationships between individuals and insurance funds. Any enactment of regulation in this area, effects on both indicator of welfare and justice in society and also on the insurance fund. In recent years, by the necessity of political and economical conditions, numerous laws have been passed without considering the stability of the sources of social security funds. Although this kind of legislation may solve economic problems of the target population, it will be very dangerous. Not considering the principles and rules of the fund’s actuarial accounting and financial resources may lead to enormous social damage in future. “Law of determining the situation of those who have ten years and less insurance payments”, is one of these rules that despite of numerous objections regarding to actuarial facts is a part of current rules which should be followed. Under this law, rules about pension, disability and survivors have been changed.

This study aims to identify factors that influence consumer loyalty to the trademark from in view of the consumers (the Insured of Iranian Social Security Organization) of Iranian medicine in of Mashhad city. The method applied field research - development and cross-sectional survey. The Statistical population is customers’ social security organization in Mashhad city that were selected simple random sampling of 270 clients. To test the hypotheses, and analyze information in the descriptive statistics used frequency distribution tables and measures of central tendency and dispersion, etc., and in the inferential statistics to test hypotheses and confirm or reject them, used regression and Friedman test was used to rank the variables. Descriptive results showed that most customers of the Social Security Organization in Mashhad are married men 36-45 years old with a bachelor’s degree and the results of assumptions test showed that the hypothesis of the study, twelve were accepted. Therefore, the results showed that perceived quality, advertising, advise others, price, packaging and brand inspired by doctor or pharmacist impact significant in Loyalty (behavioral and attitudinal) for Iranian medicine trademarks among the insured of Social Security Organization in Mashhad.