Protocol - Do social health insurance schemes in developing country settings improve health outcomes and reduce the impoverishing effect of healthcare payments for the poorest people?

1 Department of Public Health Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK South Asia Network for Chronic Disease, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK South Asian Cochrane Network & Centre, Prof. BV Moses & ICMR Advanced Centre for Research & Training in Evidence Informed Health Care, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

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