In many developing countries limited health budgets are a serious problem. Innovative ways to raise funds for the provision of health services, for example, through health care insurance, have a high priority. Health care insurance for rural households shields such patients from unexpected high costs of care. However, there are questions about whether, and how much, rural households are willing to pay to purchase such insurance, as well as the factors determining willingness to pay. In recent years the Iranian government has tried to improve health and medical services to rural areas through a health insurance program. This study was conducted to estimate rural households' demand and willingness to pay for health insurance. A contingent valuation method (CVM) was applied using an iterative bidding game technique. Data has been collected from a sample of 2,139 households across the country.

The present research aims to study youth satisfaction from public urban environments and to identify the factors effective on youth satisfaction. The main question of the research is: What factors can affect youth satisfaction from public urban environments? This research has been performed by analytical-descriptive method. The statistical population consists of all youngsters in the age group of 13-17 years old in the city of Tehran, which was selected based on systematic random sampling method with a size of 333 persons. Based on the research findings, there is a significant relationship between the four variables of research, that is, "Service Access," "Social Security," "Dwelling Record," and the secondary variable of "Physical Specifications of Dwelling Place" with dependent variable of "Youth Satisfaction" ( p < 0.01). Only the variable of "Socio-Economic Origin" did not have any significant relationship, and was rejected. Youth satisfaction from public environment in the area under study was estimated in a lower threshold (5 > 2.82 > 1 with theoretical equal to 3). Moreover, the variable of "Service Access" with causative effect of 0.396 has the highest correlation with youth satisfaction from the neighborhood.KEYWORDS public urban environment, quality of life, satisfaction, youth and child friendly city