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Social Health Protection

An ILO Strategy towards Universal Access to Health Care

Publisher: International Labour Office

Place of Publish: Switzerland, Geneva

Year: 2008

Page Numbers: 108

Acc. No: 4043

Class No: 362.5 SOC

Category: Books & Reports

Subjects: Social Problems and Services

Type of Resource: Monograph

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-92-2-121161-7

This paper aims to set forth some basic notions about the ILO strategy on rationalising the use of pluralistic financing mechanisms. Based on the most recent information on social health protection coverage, the paper outlines global patterns of social health protection financing and coverage. Given the lack of data on social health protection coverage, the paper propose a new indicator aimed at providing, some assessment of the global deficit in access to health services.