Healthcare system financed through contribution at introduction
| Quick info | |
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| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Binary |
| Value labels |
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| Technical name | health_HC_financing_IntroCont |
| Category | Health and long-term care |
| Label | Healthcare system financed through contribution at introduction |
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This variable describes the features of the healthcare system at the point of introduction. It indicates insurance contributions as a major financing source of the healthcare system.
Coding rules
Contributions are characterized as prepayments to social health insurance establishing entitlements to healthcare goods and services. The indicator takes the value 1 = "Yes" if the respective legislation and system description define contributions as a substantial financing source of healthcare services.
Bibliographic info
Citation: 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. Achim Schmid, 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.
- 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
- Version 0.001: Initial release
Revisions: No revisions yet
Sources
- National legislation, expert survey, secondary literature, see bibliographic info
