Inclusiveness: preventive care

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

This indicator provides the social groups that are entitled to access preventive 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, including the services of vaccination and preventive care.

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 preventive health care cannot be encompassed within the mentioned categories. Therefore, this indicator is defined as preventive health care and includes the codes preventive care and vaccination.

The code preventive care (316) follows the definition: “Prevention is any measure that aims to avoid or reduce the number or the severity of injuries and diseases, their sequelae and complications (Pomey et al., 2000).” (OECD System of Health Accounts, p. 100). In alignment with the SHA, we only refer to primary and secondary prevention. Primary prevention involves specific health measures aimed at avoiding diseases and risk factors to: reduce the onset of a disease, diminish the number of new cases, and anticipate the emergence and lessen the severity of diseases. Primary preventive measures aim to reduce risks before they generate some effect. e.g. via vaccination. Secondary prevention involves specific interventions to detect disease and therapy as early as possible, e.g. via screening. Secondary prevention thereby increases opportunities for less costly and invasive interventions to prevent the progression of the disease and the emergence of symptoms, or the “stock of illness” Examples include screening for diseases such as TB, diabetes and breast cancer.” (OECD System of Health Accounts, p. 100

The code vaccination (315) is used when the benefits package includes vaccination or vaccination programs. Note: If vaccination/immunization programs are explicitly mentioned to be part of the benefit package, code vaccination and not preventive care as this the more specific code.

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