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Response to health inequity: the role of social protection in reducing poverty and achieving equity
Social protection: a Health in All Policies (HiAP) tool to address inequities
- English
Xenia Scheil-Adlung; Social Protection Department; International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Health Promotion International
Oxford University Press
2014
9
Summary (English)
This article presents social protection as a tool to address health inequities. The latter are determined by multiple factors within the health sector and beyond. While gaps in social health protection coverage and effective access to health care are among the most prominent causes of health inequities, social and economic inequalities existing beyond the health sector contribute greatly to barriers to access affordable and acceptable health care.