[DK] Health Insurance Statistics

Full name of the series in original language

Lægebesøg MV. (Tidligere Sygesikringsstatistik)

Abstract

The purpose of the health insurance statistics is to analyse the relationship between social conditions and the public health insurance system. The statistics were compiled for the first time for the year 1984 on the basis of Statistics Denmark's Public Health Insurance Register which is based on data from the joint-municipal system of public health insurance used by the counties to settle accounts with doctors, dentists, etc.
In the years 1984, 1985 and 1986, the register was based on a 10 per cent sample, containing individuals born on the 14th, 15th or 16th day of a month; from 1987, the register covers all benefits and persons included in the agreements between the National Health Service Negotiating Committee (Sygesikringens Forhandlingsudvalg) and the organisations representing the various contributors. Whereas initially it was typically doctors who had agreements with the National Health Service Negotiating Committee, several new contributors have over the years made agreements and so they are included in the statistics.

The statistics provide information on the number of recipients and benefits and the public spending in the public health insurance system within a calendar year. The statistics contain the benefits, for example consultations with general practitioners and specialist doctors, treatments by physiotherapists and chiropractors, etc., that are settled in the joint-municipal system, which means that some of the total expenditure in the public health system is not included in the statistics (expenditures for medicine, travel insurance, private laboratories, etc.). In the statistics, certain benefits are included, although they are not included in the Act on the Public Health Service (Lov om offentlig sygesikring). These are health examinations of children and pregnant women and also vaccinations of children.

Over the years, more contributors have made agreements with the authorities (for instance laboratories, physiotherapists and psychologists). And so, an ever-increasing number of benefits are being counted.

Variables:

Region
Type of benefit - an aggregation of the very detailed list of benefits in the system
Persons
Age - for some minor children the benefit has been recorded by an adult, so the 'Children-category' covers these cases where the age of the child is unknown
Number of benefits
Number of contacts - as not every benefit involves a direct contact
Amount - does not include the payment made directly by the benefit receiver.

Geographic coverage

Denmark

Notes

Source: https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/dokumentation/documentationofstatistics…

Time period

1984 => 2011

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Update date

15/09/2021