Inclusiveness: dental care

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

This indicator provides the specific social groups that are entitled to dental care services by legislative texts. The variable is coded following the Art.13 of the Medical Care and Sickness Benefits Convention (1969) of the International Labor Organization –ILO–, which establishes the categories of services that medical care must comprise. This indicator is defined as dental care as in subsection (e) of the mentioned article.

Coding rules

The variable is coded following the Art.13 of the Medical Care and Sickness Benefits Convention (1969) of the International Labor Organization –ILO–, which establishes the categories of services that medical care must comprise. This indicator is defined as dental care as in subsection (e) of the mentioned article encompassing the following codes: dental care.

The code Dental Care (313) refers to “(…), curative care services focus on oral health, including teeth, gum and other related disorders. It includes the whole range of services usually performed in an outpatient setting, such as tooth extraction, the fitting of dental prostheses, and dental implants and orthodontics” (OECD System of Health Accounts, p. 86).

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