Social Health Assistance: Experience from Belgium & lessons for low or middle-income countries

Social Health Assistance is one of the components of a comprehensive Social Health Protection Policy. More specifically, Prof Bart Criel would be  drawing on his  experiences with it in Belgium and from thereon identify possible lessons of it for LMIC countries.

Prof. Bart Criel is associated with the Department of Public Health at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. His main areas of work are the study of health care delivery systems and of systems of social protection in health in low-and middle income countries.