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[https://www.haigekassa.ee/en/organisation/about-us] | '''Primary purpose:''' To organize national health insurance, ensuring insured individuals have access to necessary healthcare services, medicines, medical equipment, and cash benefits. [https://www.haigekassa.ee/en/organisation/about-us Click here to learn more]. | ||
'''Sponsor, manager or home institution:''' [[dataOwner::Estonian Health Insurance Fund (EHIF)]]; [[dataOwner::The Ministry of Social Affairs]]. | '''Sponsor, manager or home institution:''' [[dataOwner::Estonian Health Insurance Fund (EHIF)]]; [[dataOwner::The Ministry of Social Affairs]]. | ||
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Primary purpose: To organize national health insurance, ensuring insured individuals have access to necessary healthcare services, medicines, medical equipment, and cash benefits. Click here to learn more.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Estonian Health Insurance Fund (EHIF); The Ministry of Social Affairs.
Type of information: Data Dictionary: Estonian Health Insurance Fund (EHIF) Database.
Available type of information: healthcare costs, numbers of patients; year; age; sex; diagnosis; type of medical activity; medical procedures; hospital location [1].
Source of Information: Based on claims data from all Estonian healthcare providers that have signed a contract with EHIF and deliver EHIF-financed healthcare.
Data level: patient level.
Available data level: regional level.
Number of Records: 1.3 million people, i.e. 95% of Estonia's population.
Date Range: 2004 onwards.
Cancer Areas of Interest: neoplasms (C00-D48).
Data access: partially publicly available [2]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [3].
Contact information: Information [4].
