Framework sub-dimension | Description |
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Non-medical determinants of health | |
Health behaviours | This sub-category includes self-harming and positive health behaviours. Actions of healthcare planning may aim to promote positive health behaviours. |
Social determinants | Social determinants of health embrace the two sub-categories living and working conditions and environmental factors of the Canadian framework. According to the WHO, social determinants of health describe conditions individuals are born, grow up, live, work, and grow old with. |
Demographic factors | Population characteristics such as age and gender fall under this sub-category. |
Health status | |
Morbidity | In this sub-category, primarily indicators concerning frequency of diseases focussed in the project are included. |
Mortality | Information on mortality was to be collected mainly for the calculation of health system performance indicators but also to approximate regional health status. |
Utilisation of the health system | |
Prevention and health promotion | Through indicators assigned to this sub-category, utilisation of prevention or health promotion services and structures is measured. |
Outpatient care | This sub-category includes the utilisation of services offered in practices, ambulatory healthcare centres, and domestic setting. |
(Semi-residential) inpatient care | This sub-category subsumes the utilisation of services offered in hospitals, rehabilitation clinics, and nursing homes. |
Health system performance | |
Accessibility | Derived from the OECD’s Health Care Quality Indicators Framework accessibility defines how easy healthcare services are accessible. Access can be physical, financial, or psychological and requires the existence of the particular healthcare service. |
Patient centeredness | Patient centeredness is achieved, when healthcare provision is orientated on patients’ wishes, expectations, and satisfaction. |
Continuity | Continuity describes the degree to which healthcare provision for specific users is coordinated between health professionals and other institutions. |
Effectiveness & efficiency | Effectiveness describes the degree to which a healthcare service achieves a desired result whereas efficiency means the optimal use of available resources to achieve maximum benefit. |
Safety | Safety describes the degree to which healthcare processes avoid, prevent, or improve adverse events resulting from healthcare itself. |
Healthcare provision | |
Facilities | This sub-category includes a variety of health facilities with a focus of those which are especially relevant for patient groups selected in the project. |
Professionals | Indicators of this sub-category were meant to include all health professionals having direct contact to either patients or their dependants such as physicians, psychologists, and nurses. |
Technology | This sub-category subsumes health related products such as medical machines like computer tomography scanner, and telemedicine. |
Honorary office | Besides health professionals health related support is also provided by other patients, e.g. in self-help groups or other patient organisations, and by other persons on a voluntary basis. |