Financing of the healthcare system at introduction

Quick info
Data type	String
Scale	String
Value labels	Not applicable
Technical name	health_HC_financing_IntroDescription
Category	Health and long-term care
Label	Financing of the healthcare system at introduction
Related indicators	Healthcare system financed through taxation at introduction Healthcare system financed through contribution at introduction Healthcare system financed through out-of-pockect payments at introduction Healthcare system financed through private insurance schemes at introduction Healthcare system financed through global actors at introduction

This variable describes the features of the healthcare system at the point of introduction. It describes the system of financing as defined in the respective legislation. The description includes information such as the sources of financing, and, where applicable, the level of contribution rates or insurance premiums.

Coding rules

Description of the the system of financing.

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 0.002-0.022: Information added to the indicator
• Version 0.023: Revision of introduction dates and financing information

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

Sources

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