Total expenditure on long-term care by government schemes in million NCU (OECD)

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Data type Numeric
Scale Metric
Value labels Not applicable
Technical name health_LTC_financing_ExpHCHF_LTC_Gov_MilNCU_OECD
Category Health and long-term care
Label Total expenditure on long-term care by government schemes in million NCU (OECD)
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This indicator measures the expenditure on the health care function "long-term care (health and social)" (SHA HC.3 and HCR.1) by the health care financing scheme "government schemes" (SHA HF.1.1) in million national currency units following the System of Health Accounts (SHA; OECD et al. 2011). Expenditure refers to the payments related to final consumption of all health care goods and services by the resident units. Long-term care (health) consists of a range of medical and personal care services that are consumed with the primary goal of alleviating pain and suffering and reducing or managing the deterioration in health status in patients with a degree of long-term dependency. The function long-term care (social) comprises the expenditure on lower-level social care services to assist with instrumental activities of daily living (such as home-help, meals on wheels, transport and day centres, etc.). As the health care components of long-term care are contained in HC.3, the complementary social components are included as a health care-related category that is further subdivided into in-kind and in-cash components. The characteristics of government health care financing schemes are determined by law or by the government. A separate budget is set for the program, and a government unit has an overall responsibility for it. Usually, but not necessarily, government schemes are operated by the government unit(s).


Coding rules

For further discussion of the boundaries and measurement of the health care functions on long-term care (health) see OECD et al. 2011, pp. 88-94.

For further discussion of the boundaries and measurement of the health care functions on long-term care (social) see OECD et al. 2011, p. 114.

For further discussion of the boundaries and measurement of government (health care financing) schemes see OECD et al. 2011, pp. 167-169.


Bibliographic info

Citation: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). 12.2018. "Health expenditure and financing." https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SHA.


Related publications:

  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Health Organization (WHO), and Eurostat. 2011. A System of Health Accounts. Paris: OECD Publishing.
  • World Health Organization (WHO). 2014. "Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED)." https://apps.who.int/nha/database/Home/Index/en/.



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