Healthcare system financed through taxation at introduction
| Quick info | |
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| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Binary |
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| Technical name | health_HC_financing_IntroTax |
| Category | Health and long-term care |
| Label | Healthcare system financed through taxation at introduction |
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This variable describes the features of the healthcare system at the point of introduction. It indicates taxes and the general government budget as a major financing source of the healthcare system.
Coding rules
Taxation refers to general government revenue. This may also include government revenue from trading commodities or government debt. Taxation is characterized as revenue that does not establish entitlements to healthcare, although it might be earmarked for health spending. It may include revenue at federal, regional or local level of government. The indicator takes the value 1 = "Yes" if the respective legislation and system description define taxes or the general government budget as a substantial financing source of healthcare services.
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 0.002-0.016: Information added to the indicator
- Version 0.017: 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
