What is Social Protection?

Social health protection

“Social health protection is designed to alleviate the burden caused by ill health and reduce the indirect costs of disease and disability, such as lost years of income due to short and long-term disability, care of family members, lower productivity, and the impaired education and social development of children. Better health enables persons to work and generate income, and as such has the potential to break the cycle of ill health and poverty”.

Source: International Labour Organization. N.d. “Social Health Protection”. ILO. <https://www.ilo.org/secsoc/areas-of-work/policy-development-and-applied-research/social-health-protection/lang--en/index.htm>. Accessed 30 April 2020.