“Social health protection comprises all the instruments that aim at removing financial barriers preventing access to health services and protecting people from the impoverishing effects of medical expenditures.”
See also: Social health protection
Source: Hörmansdörfer, C. 2009. "Health and Social Protection". In: Promoting Pro-Poor Growth Social Protection. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. <https://europa.eu/capacity4dev/file/26963/download?token=O0C1xgfW>. Accessed 17 April 2020.