Statistical Terms Glossary

Are activities of private insurers and central and local authorities and social security. Included are the planning, management, regulation, and collection of funds and handling of claims of the delivery system.

Health and Social Support includes all personnel employed in education systems who provide health and social support services to students. It includes the following types of personnel: health professionals such as doctors, dentists, ophthalmologists, optometrists, hygienists, nurses, and diagnosticians; psychiatrists and psychologists; speech pathologists and audiologists; occupational therapists; and social workers

Term refers to health-care benefits or coverage to which participants in the after-service health insurance plan are entitled.

Activities of health care in a country comprises the sum of activities performed either by institutions or individuals pursuing, through the application of medical, paramedical and nursing knowledge and technology, the goals of: promoting health and preventing disease;curing illness and reducing premature mortality; caring for persons affected by chronic illness who require nursing care;caring for persons with health-related impairment, disability, and handicaps who require nursing care; assisting patients to die with dignity; providing and administering public health; providing and administering health programmes, health insurance and other funding arrangements.

Comprise the following ISIC Rev. 3 Classes: 5231 – Retail sale of pharmaceutical and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles;6603 – Non-life insurance;7512 – Regulation of the activities of agencies that provide health care education, cultural services and other social services excluding social security;7530 – Compulsory social security activities;8511 – Hospital activities;8512 – Medical and dental practice activities;8519 – Other human health activities.

In the International Classification of Functioning an umbrella term for disease (acute or chronic), disorder, injury, or trauma. A health condition may also include other circumstances such as pregnancy, ageing, stress, congenital anomaly, or genetic predisposition.

The absence of unfair, avoidable or preventable differences in health among populations or groups defined socially, economically, demographically or geographically.

Is a general term referring to the entire class of indicators expressed in terms of life expectancy in a defined state of health.

Health expenditure incurred by corporations refers to health expenditure incurred by corporations and private employers providing occupational health services and other unfunded medical benefits to employees plus expenditure by non-profit institutions serving households (excluding social insurance) such as red cross, philanthropic and charitable institutions, religious orders, lay organisations; benefits provided for free by medical care providers plus health expenditure incurred by the rest of the world.

Indemnity coverage against financial losses associated with occurrence or treatment of health problems.

A health insurance scheme is a public or private scheme for the reimbursement of medical or hospital care or compensation for loss of income due to illness, injury or accident. A health insurance system should be compulsory and cover all workers. As necessary, States may make limited exceptions, such as for workers in casual employment and members of the employer’s family living in his/her house in respect of their work for him/her. Health insurance should be available equally to women and men, although there will be differences depending on whether a worker is in full-time or part-time employment. Compulsory health insurance schemes are not applicable in many spheres of work in which women predominate, so they are obliged to take personal responsibility for this protection. The system should be administered by non-profit institutions under the supervision of the competent public authority. The insured persons and the employers should share the financial burden of the system. In case of incapacity for work on health grounds, the insured person is entitled to receive: (a) a cash benefit for at least the first 26 weeks of incapacity for work; (b) medical treatment, medicines and appliances free of charge or on paying only a part of the cost.

The effect the process has had on the people targeted by it. These might include, for example, changes in their self-perceived health status or changes in the distribution of health determinants, or factors which are known to affect their health, well-being and quality of life.

Are those at the second level, second stage dealing with the principals and practices of medical diagnostic and treatment procedures and of general public health problems.

Refers to individuals using their ears in terms of auditory (or hearing) capacity in knowing what is being said to them or the sounds of activity, including danger, within their immediate surroundings.

A device worn inside or next to the ear by people who cannot hear well in order to help them to hear better.

The question determines individuals who have some hearing difficulties that contribute to the reduction of their ability to perform any part and aspect of their day, such as difficulty hearing someone talking in a busy place or with noise, or cannot hear someone speak directly and at normal volume (without shouting or higher volume), and determine whether they are unable to hear with one ear or both.

In recent years, the production of heat for sale has been increasing in importance. To reflect this, heat production represents all heat production from public combined heat and power (CHP) and heat plants as well as heat sold by autoproducer CHP and heat plants to third parties.

Refers to plants which are designed to produce heat only.

Insulated wagon fitted with a heat-producing appliance.

See highly Indebted.

Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs) comprise a group of 41 developing countries classified as being heavily indebted poor countries. The group includes 32 countries with a 1993 GNP per capita of $695 or less and whose 1993 present value of debt to exports is higher than 200 percent or whose present value of debt to GNP is higher than 80 percent (World Bank classification of severely indebted low-income countries).
Also, the group includes nine countries that have received concessional rescheduling from Paris Club creditors (or are potentially eligible for such rescheduling)

This comprises oils that make up the distillation residue. It comprises all residual fuel oils, including those obtained by blending. Its kinematic viscosity is above 10 cSt at 80 degrees C. The flash point is always above 50 degrees C and the density is always more than 0.90 kg/l.

A mixture of predominantly gas oil and fuel oil that distills in the range of approximately 380°C to 540°C.

Goods road vehicle with a gross vehicle weight above 3500 kg, designed, exclusively or primarily, to carry goods.

Goods road vehicle with a gross vehicle weight above 3 500 kg, designed, exclusively or primarily, to carry goods.

Heavy metals are potentially toxic metals used in industrial processes, for example, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel and zinc. They may damage plant and animal life at low concentrations and tend to accumulate in the food chain

Security acquired to cover possible loss on speculative investments.

A hedge fund is a pooled investment vehicle that is privately organised and is administered by professional investment managers. It is different from another pooled investment fund, the mutual fund, in that access is available only to wealthy individuals and institutional managers. Moreover, hedge funds are able to sell securities short and buy securities on leverage, which is consistent with their typically short-term and high risk oriented investment strategy, based primarily on the active use of derivatives and short positions.
US hedge funds are exempt from Securities and Exchange Commission reporting requirements, as well as from regulatory restrictions concerning leverage or trading strategies