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   Routine treatment provided to patients in health facilities at the first level of the health pyramid. It includes preventive care and health promotion, simple curative treatment and nutritional rehabilitation. [ILO-STEP, 144]

    See: benefit plan

   Social protection schemes that guarantee a basic level of protection. This term does not relate to the level of benefits. In particular, this should not to be understood as a minimum level of benefits. [ILO, 694]

    Basic social security or 'social security floor' is a set of guarantees where:

• All residents have access to basic/essential health care benefits through pluralistic delivery mechanisms, with the State accepting general responsibility for ensuring the adequacy of the delivery system and its financing;
• All children enjoy a level of income security at least at the poverty level through various family/child benefits aimed at facilitating access to nutrition, education and care;
• Some targeted income support is provided to the poor and the unemployed in the active age group;
• All elderly residents and those with disabilities enjoy income security at least at the poverty level through pensions for old age, disability and survivors.

   A person who, in his or her capacity as a member or dependent, benefits from the services of a health micro-insurance scheme. [BIT-STEP, 144]
Synonym: covered person, protected person

   Transfer (in cash or kind) provided to an individual or household on the basis of an entitlement or need. [BIT, 694]

   Synonym: benefits monitoring report (Philippines)

   Consists of both the list of covered health services and the level of coverage that corresponds to each service. A scheme may offer one or more benefit plans from which members may choose: for example, a basic plan and an extended plan (including a greater number of services, and in some cases, higher levels of coverage). Each benefit plan has a corresponding premium level; the premium level of an extended formula is higher than that of a basic plan. [ILO-STEP, 144]

    Domain: microinsurance

The combination of, on the one hand, the benefits provided by the health micro-insurance scheme (services covered and levels of coverage + ancillary services) and, on the other, the corresponding premiums. A direct relationship exists between benefits and premiums: the greater the number of services covered and the levels of coverage provided, the higher the corresponding premium. [ILO-STEP, 144]

   The health insurance coverage that a health micro-insurance scheme agrees to provide in exchange for the payment of insurance premiums.
Note: Benefits do not include ancillary services – such as health information – that the scheme may also provide to its members. [ILO-STEP, 144]

   One of the decision-making bodies in those health micro-insurance schemes that hold a general assembly and are managed democratically. The board of directors is composed of members elected by the general assembly and is responsible for implementing the scheme's general policy, as determined by the general assembly. The board of directors may be assisted by the executive committee, which, in turn, is responsible for implementing decisions and managing the scheme on a day-to-day basis. [ILO-STEP, 144]

   A pharmaceutical substance protected by a patent and sold under a brand name chosen by the manufacturer.