Actors responsible for financing at introduction

Quick info
Data type	String
Scale	String
Value labels	Not applicable
Technical name	health_HC_financing_IntroActorsDescrip
Category	Health and long-term care
Label	Actors responsible for financing at introduction
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This variable describes the features of the healthcare system at the point of introduction. It specifies the actors responsible for the financing of the healthcare system in the respective country. Responsibility for financing includes the collection, pooling, and allocation of funds.

Coding rules

List of actors responsible for financing (collection, pooling, and allocation of funds).

Bibliographic info

Citation: de Carvalho, Gabriela and Achim Schmid in collaboration with Polte, Alexander; Frisina Doetter, Lorraine; Haunss, Sebastian and Heinz Rothgang. 2023. Global Historical Healthcare Systems Dataset (G2HSet): Technical report and codebook. Vol. 15 of SFB 1342 Technical Paper Series. Bremen, SFB 1342

Schmid, Achim, Gabriela de Carvalho, Antonio Basilicata, and Heinz Rothgang. 2021. Classifying healthcare systems at introduction: Types of healthcare systems under public responsibility. SFB 1342 Working Paper 13. Bremen: SOCIUM, SFB 1342.

de Carvalho, Gabriela, Alexander Polte, Katharina Scherf, Mai Mohamed Abdou Mahmoud , Lorraine Frisina Doetter. 2021. Trends in time: Identifying health care system introductions worldwide. SFB1342 Working Paper 16. Bremen: SOCIUM, SFB 1342.

Related publications:

• Frisina Doetter, Lorraine, Achim Schmid, Gabriela de Carvalho, and Heinz Rothgang. 2021. “Comparing apples to oranges? Minimizing typological biases to better classify healthcare systems globally.” Health Policy OPEN 2 (1): 1–8. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hpopen.2021.100035.

  Misc

  Project manager(s): Gabriela de Carvalho; Achim Schmid

  
  

  Data release:
  • Version 0.001: Initial release
  • Version 0.002-0.019: Information added to the indicator
  • Version 0.020: Revision of introduction dates

  
  Revisions: Revision of introduction dates and events for several countries in Africa, Latin America and Europe

  Sources

  • National legislation, expert survey, secondary literature, see bibliographic info