financing_healthcare: Public financing of healthcare and other variables.

In drsimonj/ourworldindata: An R data package containing tidy versions of datasets from ourworldindata.org

Description

Country-level changes in the financing of healthcare and related variables over time. Data is a merged version of all datasets available for download at https://ourworldindata.org/financing-healthcare/. For details regarding the extraction and formation of this data frame, please refer to the data prep script

Usage

financing_healthcare

Format

A data frame with 36,873 rows and 17 variables:

year

Year

country

Country

continent

Continent

health_exp_public

Public Health Expenditure as percent of GDP. Multiple estimates were available from various data sources. Thus, the value that appears in this data frame is the mean of available estimates.

health_exp_total

Total Healthcare expenditure by country ( corresponding national GDP). Multiple estimates were available from various data sources. Thus, the value that appears in this data frame is the mean of available estimates.

health_insurance

Health Insurance coverage (percent of labour force)

nhs_exp

National Health Service (NHS) expenditure as percent of GDP

health_exp_private

Health Expenditure, total ( services (US only)

health_insurance_govt

Health Insurance Coverage by government programs (US only)

health_insurance_private

Health Insurance Coverage by private programs (US only). Not mutually exclusive from health_insurance_govt

health_insurance_any

Health Insurance Coverage by any program (US only)

health_exp_public_percent

Public expenditure on healthcare as percent of total healthcareexpenditure

health_exp_oop_percent

Out-of-pocket expenditure on healthcare as percent of total healthcare expenditure. 'Out-of-pocket' refers to directoutlays made by households, including gratuities and in-kind payments, to healthcare providers

no_health_insurance

Percentage of persons without health insurance (US only)

gdp

Gross domestic product. Description by the World Bank: "GDP per capita based on purchasing power parity (PPP). PPP GDP is gross domestic product converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GDP as the U.S. dollar has in the United States. GDP at purchaser's prices is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources. Data are in constant 2011 international dollars.

life_expectancy

Life expectancy at birth, total (years). Indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

child_mort

Child Mortality (0-5 year-olds dying per 1,000 born). The under 5 mortality rate is the probability of a child born in a specific year dying before reaching the age of five if subject to current age-specific mortality rates.

Source

https://ourworldindata.org/financing-healthcare/

drsimonj/ourworldindata documentation built on May 15, 2019, 2:52 p.m.