Assessing the Resource Requirements for the Social Protection Agenda of SDGs in Asia- Health Care Schemes
15 February 2017
Social health protection aims to ease the burden caused by illness and disabilty. An effective health protection system provides universal access to affordable, available, and adequate health care. In Asia, much still needs to be done to provide social health protection to all. Lower middle income countries like the Philippines and Indonesia have only about 80% social health protection coverage and low income countries such as Myanmar and Nepal have only 20%. This presentation shares several solutions to close or at least minize the coverage gaps in these countries.
Geographical Focus:
Regional - Asia
Type of Content:
Learning Event