INSPIRE Pakistan

Informing the Social Health Protection Initiative through Rigorous Evidence

Author: Beatrice Neretto

Newly published in the Geneva Risk and Insurance Review: Does free hospitalization insurance change health care consumption of the poor? Short-term evidence from Pakistan

Feb 14, 2022

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Beatrice Neretto

We are excited to see our paper published – online for now, but hopefully soon in the special issues “Risk Considerations and Insurance in Developing Countries”. In the paper, Prof. Dr. Andreas Landmann and Dr. Simona Helmsmüller study the effect of free hospitalization insurance on inpatient care consumption patterns. This was part of Phase 1 of…
Background: the Social Health Protection Initiative

Jan 27, 2022

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Beatrice Neretto

What is SHPI? In Pakistan, where more than 48 million people live under the national poverty line, health-related expenditures are a major cause of economic shock for poor families. More than half of all the money spent on health comes out of patients’ own pockets. In the absence of social health protection schemes which make…