Social Protection in Health : What Are the Options for Pakistan?
The main objective of this note is to outline the issues that need to be considered at the planning stage; and to analyze what are the options for Government of Pakistan (GOP) to consider extending social protection to health. Because the potential...
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| Format: | Policy Note |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/719621468145472804/Social-protection-in-health-what-are-the-options-for-Pakistan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27426 |
| Summary: | The main objective of this note is to
outline the issues that need to be considered at the
planning stage; and to analyze what are the options for
Government of Pakistan (GOP) to consider extending social
protection to health. Because the potential beneficiaries
also access publicly?financed services from the public
health sector, and because they are a large share of the
supposed target beneficiaries of parallel initiatives
financed by the Government, the Bank recommends that a team,
including members from Benazir Income Support Program
(BISP), Ministry of Finance, Federal Ministry of health and
the provincial governments be formed to discuss pros and
cons of alternative design features. The Bank will be
pleased to support this effort. This is the first of the
policy note series on social protection in health by South
Asia Human Development Sector (SASHD). Policy note dilates
the essential principles and critical issues in the design
of a social health insurance model and also presents various
options available to extend health insurance to the target
population (poor and vulnerable). |
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