Towards equitable coverage and
more inclusive social protection in health
Final Conference of the Health Inc Project
When: 28-29 October 2014
Where: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
This conference is the largest
dissemination event of a
collaborative research project
involving LSE Health (London),
ITM (Antwerp), CREPOS (Dakar),
IPH (Bangalore), ISSER (Accra)
and TISS (Mumbai). Health Inc
explored how social exclusion can
account for the limited success of
innovative health financing and
social protection reforms.
We invite researchers, social
protection experts and
policymakers to bring a broader
perspective to the debate.
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Despite increasing global efforts to make UHC (universal health coverage) a reality, inequities
in access to quality health care persist. Taking stock of the multitude of factors affecting the
performance of health financing and social protection reforms, Health Inc focuses on one
common determinant: social exclusion.
Health Inc developed an original research tool to unearth the exclusionary mechanisms in
the design and implementation of social protection programmes. With the ‘SPEC-by-step
tool’, the social (S), political (P), economic (E) and cultural (C) expressions of social exclusion
can be identified by focusing in on those left behind at each step (from awareness raising
to receiving full benefits) of a social health protection programme. Making appropriate use
of quantitative and qualitative data, Health Inc sought to answer three questions: who is
excluded, how, and why? This analysis was conducted for three social health protection
programmes: publicly subsidized privately provided health insurance for the poor (RSBY)
in the Indian states of Karnataka and Maharashtra, the National Health Insurance Scheme
(NHIS) in Ghana, and a user-fee exemption scheme for older people (Plan Sésame) in Senegal.
A comprehensive overview of our findings will be presented.
Principal speakers: Bart Criel and Werner Soors (ITM), Narayan Devadasan and Tanya Seshadri
(IPH), Ali McGuire and Philipa Mladovsky (LSE), Harshad Thakur and Soumitra Ghosh (TISS),
Alfred Ndiaye and Maymouna Bâ (CREPOS), Felix A. Asante and Daniel K. Arhinful (ISSER)
CREPOS
More info: Fahdi Dkhimi at fdkhimi@itg.be | www.healthinc.eu
The research leading to these
results has received funding
from the European Commission’s
Seventh Framework Programme
FP7/2007 under grant agreement
No. 261440.