The Role of Social Health Protection in addressing Social Determinants of Health

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The Role of Social Health Protection in
addressing Social Determinants of Health

• Dr Xenia Scheil-Adlung
• Health Policy Coordinator
• International Labour Office
• Social Security Department, Geneva, Switzerland

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What are the issues ?A case study of Yemen
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Out-of-pocket payments in of total expenditure
on health
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Poverty and health financing Catastrophic
health care costs
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What is the impact ?
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Addressing the impacts Towards a progressive
development of a global social protection floor
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What is social health protection?
Definition of Affordability based
on Social health protection
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The global trend Using various protection
mechanisms in parallel without coordination
Social health insurance National health
insurance Community-based insurance Private
commercial health insurance
Social Assisstance National health
services Vouchers
Conditional cash benefits
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The Strategy
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Basic Principles for organizing universal social
health protection
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Is the ILO strategy feasible in developing
countries?
         
Historical development of coverage rates of
social health insurance
Historical development of GDP/per capita in US
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Summary