Total expenditure on long-term care in million NCU (OECD)
| Quick info | |
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| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Metric |
| Value labels | Not applicable |
| Technical name | health_LTC_financing_ExpHC_LTC_MilNCU_OECD |
| Category | Health and long-term care |
| Label | Total expenditure on long-term care in million NCU (OECD) |
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This indicator measures the expenditure on the health care function total long-term care (SHA HC.3 und HCR.1) in million national currency units following the System of Health Accounts (SHA; OECD et al. 2011). Expenditure refers to the payments related to final consumption of all health care goods and services by the resident units. Total long-term care spending is the aggregate of the health and social components. Long-term care (health) consists of a range of medical and personal care services that are consumed with the primary goal of alleviating pain and suffering and reducing or managing the deterioration in health status in patients with a degree of long-term dependency. The function long-term care (social) comprises the expenditure on lower-level social care services to assist with instrumental activities of daily living (such as home-help, meals on wheels, transport and day centres, etc.). As the health care components of long-term care are contained in HC.3, the complementary social components are included as a health care-related category that is further subdivided into in-kind and in-cash components.
Coding rules
For further discussion of the boundaries and measurement of the health care functions on long-term care (health) see OECD et al. 2011, pp. 88-94.
For further discussion of the boundaries and measurement of the health care functions on long-term care (social) see OECD et al. 2011, p. 114.
Bibliographic info
Citation: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). 12.2018. "Health expenditure and financing." https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SHA.
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Health Organization (WHO), and Eurostat. 2011. A System of Health Accounts. Paris: OECD Publishing.
- World Health Organization (WHO). 2014. "Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED)." https://apps.who.int/nha/database/Home/Index/en/.
Misc
Project manager(s): A04 project, main responsible person Johanna Fischer
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Sources
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). 12.2018. "Health expenditure and financing." https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SHA.
