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 |
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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 with (a) the first national legislation, (b) enactment of entitlements to healthcare benefits, and (c) the integration of elements of the healthcare system (e.g., through the definition of institutional responsibilities for financing, service provision and regulation). Currently, the variable does not consider the possibility of terminating a healthcare system which could occur, 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 .
Bibliographic info
Citation: 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.
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: NA (no information available)
Misc
Project manager(s): Gabriela de Carvalho; Achim Schmid
- Version 0.001: Initial release
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Sources
- National legislation, expert survey, secondary literature, see bibliographic info
