Health services provision at introduction
| Quick info | |
|---|---|
| Data type | String |
| Scale | String |
| Value labels | Not applicable |
| Technical name | health_HC_provision_IntroActorsDescrip |
| Category | Health and long-term care |
| Label | Health services provision at introduction |
| Related indicators | |
This variable describes the features of the healthcare system at the point of introduction. The variable describes the setup of healthcare provision, the main locus of care (e.g. hospitals, outpatient healthcare centers, outpatient physician practice) and the status of service providers (e.g. public, private non-profit/societal, private or global actors).
Coding rules
List of main types of healthcare providers and brief description of service provision.
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.
- 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
- Version 0.002-0.021: Information added to the indicator
- Version 0.022: Revision of introduction dates
Revisions: Revision of introduction dates and events for several countries in Africa, Latin America and Europe
Sources
- National legislation, expert survey, secondary literature, see bibliographic info
