Classification Detail
Classification of Revenues of Health Care Financing Schemes (ICHA-FS)
Basic Bibliographic Information
Status:
Operational
Type:
To Be Determined
Citation:
OECD/WHO/Eurostat (2011), A System of Health Accounts: 2011 Edition, OECD Publishing, Paris, Chapter 8, pp. 195-210.
ISBN: 9789264116016 (PDF) ; 9789264116009 (print)
DOI: 10.1787/9789264116016-en
ISBN:
9789264116009
Website:
Custodian:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Available Formats:
Print, PDF
Year Adopted:
N/A
Year Published:
2011
Available Languages (besides English):
N/A
Availability:
Fully available only in English.
Purpose of the Classification
Statistical Domains:
1.4 Health
Purpose:
The classification of revenues of financing schemes is suitable for tracking the collection mechanisms of a financing framework. It provides comprehensive information about revenue-raising (how and what type of revenues are raised by the financing schemes and - in combination with information on institutional units - from which institutional sector of the economy).
Main Applications:
Compilation of health expenditure and financing statistics and health accounts according to the manual A System of Health Accounts 2011 (SHA 2011). The classification is an integral part of the accounting framework for health financing provided by SHA 2011.
Main Users:
Compilers of health accounts (mainly National Statistical Institutes, Ministries of Health)
Methodology
Scope:
Final consumption expenditure of resident units on health care goods and services. Revenues of health care financing schemes, i.e. an increase in the funds of health care financing scheme, through specific contribution mechanisms.
Concept Being Classified:
health
Statistical Units:
transaction
Main Principles:
The categories of the classification are the particular types of transaction through which the financing schemes obtain their revenues.
Classification Structure
Definition of Structure:
Level:
Level Name:
Code Format:
Number of Items:
Level 1
First-digit level
FS.7
7 items
Level 2
Second-digit level
FS.7.2
20 items
Level 3
Third-digit level
FS.7.2.1
5 items
Level 4
Fourth-digit level
FS.7.2.1.1
3 items
Remarks:
The classification also contains the Memorandum items which are not included in the above table:Reporting items: consisting of 2 First-digit level items (Code format: FS.RI.1) and 5 Second-digit level items (Code format: FS.RI.1.1)FS related items: consisting of 2 First-digit level items (Code formate: FSR.1) and 2 Second-digit level items (Code format: FSR.1.1)
Criteria for Definition of Levels:
The objective of this classification is to group types of revenues of health care financing schemes into mutually exclusive classes. If appropriate, the revenue category has subcategories that are defined according to who (or which institutional sector) provides the given revenue.
Revision Information
Chronology of revisions/versions of the classification:
Year Adopted:
Title or Version Number:
Website:
Official Adopting Entity:
OECD, Eurostat, WHO
Coordinating Entity:
International Health Accounts Team (OECD, WHO, Eurostat)
Supporting Documents
Coding Index Available:
Yes
Index Website:
Available Formats:
Print, PDF
Training Materials and Other Documents:
N/A
Contact Information
Agency / Office:
OECD, Health Division
Unit:
Health Division
Contact Name:
David Morgan
Email:
Website:
Telephone:
+33 1 45 24 76 09
Fax:
+33 1 44 30 63 61
Address:
2, rue André Pascal
75775 Paris Cedex 16
France
Comments
Training materials can be found at:
http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/sha2011.htm
http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-expenditure.htm
http://www.who.int/health-accounts/en/
http://www.who.int/health-accounts/tools/en/
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Healthcare_expenditure_statistics_-_methodology
Additional contact - for public use:
Agency/Office: Eurostat
Name: Christine Coin
Title: Head of Unit
Unit: F.5 Education, health and social protection
Telephone: +352 4301 33722
Fax: -
E-mail: Christine.Coin@ec.europa.eu
Address:
BECH B4/335
5, Rue Alphonse Weicker
2721 LUXEMBOURG