Inclusiveness: mental care

Quick info
Data type	String
Scale	Multinomial
Value labels	NA (no information available)
Technical name	health_hc_djgen_incl_mentalcare
Category	Health and long-term care
Label	Inclusiveness: mental care
Related indicators	NA (no information available)

This indicator provides the social groups that are entitled to access mental care services by legislative texts. The indicator establishes an independent category due to the specificity of the services which cannot be emcompassed in the mentioned categories of the ILO Convention.

Coding rules

The variable is coded separately from the subsections provided in the Art.13 of the Medical Care and Sickness Benefits Convention (1969) of the International Labor Organization –ILO–, since the service mental care cannot be encompassed within the mentioned categories. Therefore, this indicator is defined as mental health care and includes the code with the same title.

The code mental care (314) refers to mental health services in outpatient or inpatient settings. This refers to “psychiatric services delivered under the direction of medical doctors (…) aimed at curing or maintaining a patient's mental health. It also includes pharmaceutical services, nursing services and laboratory and technical services delivered to inpatients.” (OECD System of Health Accounts, p. 496). Mental care also includes services in “establishments of independent mental health practitioners holding the degree of a doctor of medicine with a specialization in mental medicine or a corresponding qualification (OECD System of Health Accounts, p. 136).

Bibliographic info

Citation: Codebook (in publication)

Related publications: NA (no information available)

Misc

Project manager(s): Alexander Polte; Matías Acosta; Mai Mahmoud

Data release: 31.10.2024

Revisions: NA (no information available)

Sources

National legislation