INSPIRE Pakistan

Informing the Social Health Protection Initiative through Rigorous Evidence

Tag: Pakistan

  • Population panel: First wave of data collection completed

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    Beatrice Neretto

    We are happy that the field work of the population panel group started successfully in the end of January 2022. As part of the research consortium for the SHPI Phase 2, the population panel group assesses eligible households’ health conditions and needs, their health care services utilization, and their preferences concerning the design of the…

  • Visit of the German SHPI research team members to Pakistan

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    Beatrice Neretto

    From November 15th to December 3rd 2021, seven research team members from Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) and the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH) spent three highly productive weeks in Pakistan. The research team members of Khyber Medical University (KMU) were excellent hosts and, working together, the entire team made good progress on the research.

  • Background: the Social Health Protection Initiative

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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…