Date of healthcare system introduction
| Quick info | |
|---|---|
| Data type | Date |
| Scale | Date |
| Value labels | Not applicable |
| Technical name | health_HC_regulation_IntroDateJure |
| Category | Health and long-term care |
| Label | Date of healthcare system introduction |
| Related indicators | |
This variable indicates the date of the adoption of the legislative act introducing a healthcare system under public responsibility.
Coding rules
This variable indicates the date of the adoption of the first public healthcare initiative by a national legislative body introducing a healthcare system under public responsibility. As a rule, the date is provided as YYYY.MM.DD. If the exact date is unknown DD is set to the last date of the month. If the exact month is unknown, the month is set to 12.
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
Related publications: 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
