Total expenditure on long-term care by government and compulsory schemes in percentage of GDP (OECD)

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Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	Not applicable
Technical name	health_LTC_financing_ExpHCHF_LTC_GovComp_PerGDP_OECD
Category	Health and long-term care
Label	Total expenditure on long-term care by government and compulsory schemes in percentage of GDP (OECD)
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This indicator measures the expenditure on the health care financing scheme “long-term care (health and social)” (SHA HC.3 and HCR.1) by the health care financing schemes "government schemes and compulsory contributory health care financing schemes" (SHA HF.1) in percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP) 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. 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. Government schemes and compulsory contributory health care financing schemes includes all schemes aimed at ensuring access to basic health care for the whole society, a large part of it, or at least some vulnerable groups. Included are: government schemes, social health insurance, compulsory private insurance and compulsory medical saving accounts. The indicator represents the share of long-term care (health) governmental expenditure and compulsory insurance contributions in relation to national income.

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.

For further discussion of the boundaries and measurement of government schemes and compulsory contributory health care financing schemes see OECD et al. 2011, pp. 167-172.

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.

Related publications:

• 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

Data release:

• Version 0.001: Initial release
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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.