INSPIRE Pakistan

Informing the Social Health Protection Initiative through Rigorous Evidence

Tag: Health Insurance

  • Background: the Social Health Protection Initiative

    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…