Glossary:International classification for health accounts (ICHA)

From Statistics Explained

The International Classification for Health Accounts, abbreviated as ICHA, is a nomenclature managed by the OECD.

Its purpose is to define, within the context of the system of national accounts:

• healthcare financing agents: who is paying?
• healthcare by function: for which services and goods?
• healthcare service provider industries: who provides the services?

Example

ICHA code: Functions of healthcare

HC.1: Services of curative care

HC.1.1: In-patient curative care

HC.1.2: Day cases of curative care

HC.1.3: Out-patient curative care

HC.1.3.1: Basic medical and diagnostic services

HC.1.3.2: Out-patient dental care

HC.1.3.3: All other specialized healthcare

HC.1.3.9: All other out-patient curative care

HC.1.4: Services of curative home care

HC.2: Services of rehabilitative care

Further information

• International Classifation for Health Accounts (ICHA) (pdf)

Related nomenclatures

• Classification of the functions of government