Table 1 Vulnerability indicators in upstream documents in Iran
Name of law | Main factors of vulnerability |
|---|---|
Regulations on how to identify the poor. Regulations, Note 1, Article 14 of the Law on Public Health Insurance | (A) Poor disabled people who do not have the financial ability to live their life and their dependents |
(B) Poor women-headed families and orphan children, the subject of the law on providing for orphaned women and children, approved in 1992 | |
(C) Families of poor prisoners during the imprisonment of the head of the family | |
(D) Victims of natural and unnatural events who have lost their basic means of living or means of employment until they get their basic means of employment or means of employment | |
(E) Subjects of the Shahid Rajaei plan (the poor rural elderlies) | |
(F) Other cases that are not included in the above clauses and are covered by assistance organizations such as the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee (IKRC) or the country’s welfare organization or should be covered by them, as determined by IKRC | |
Constitution | Principle twenty-one |
2 – Supporting mothers, especially during pregnancy and child custody, and supporting orphaned children | |
4 – Creation of special insurance for widows and elderly and orphaned women | |
Regulation of social welfare safety umbrella | The priority of providing services to families with absolute poverty will be as follows |
(A) Unsupervised children | |
(B) Women-headed households | |
(C) Elderly people | |
(D) Disabled people | |
(E) Others (unemployed, addicts, chronic physical and mental patients, etc.) | |
General policies of social security | Support for social service target groups, including the homeless, the disabled and the elderly |
General policies of health | Residents of underprivileged areas, poor strata and low-income deciles |