Healthcare system existence
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| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Binary |
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| Technical name | health_HC_regulation_Existence |
| Category | Health and long-term care |
| Label | Healthcare system existence |
| Related indicators | Date of healthcare system introduction |
This variable indicates whether the respective country has established a healthcare system under public responsibility.
Coding rules
This binary variable indicates whether a country has established a healthcare system under public responsibility at some point during the observation period. The indicator represents a dummy variable for the years of healthcare system existence. It takes the value “1” = "Yes" for the year of introduction of a healthcare system under public responsibility and each year after this date. For all other years, the indicator is set to “0” = "No". A healthcare system under public responsibility is introduced when (a) the first public healthcare initiative is established by a national legislative body, (b) the elements of the healthcare system are integrated, and (c) entitlements to healthcare benefits are enacted (de Carvalho & Fischer, 2020, p. 13). Currently, the variable does not yet reflect the possibility of terminating a healthcare system e.g., by abolishing the respective regulation or the loss of state capacity due to events such as wars or natural disasters which lead to the collapse of healthcare regulations. When ongoing research reveals periods of healthcare system abolishment the variable will be set to “0” for the respective years.
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
- 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.
- de Carvalho, Gabriela, and Johanna Fischer. 2020. Healthcare and Long-Term Care Systems and Reforms - Concepts and Operationalisations for Global and Historical Comparative Research. Vol. 3 of SFB 1342 Technical Paper Series. Bremen: SOCIUM, SFB 1342.
Misc
Project manager(s): Gabriela de Carvalho; Achim Schmid
- Version 0.001: Initial release
- Version 0.002-0.006: Countries added to the sample
- Version 0.007: Revision of introduction dates
Revisions: Revision of introduction for several countries in Africa, Latin America and Europe
Sources
- National legislation, expert survey, secondary literature, see bibliographic info
