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Metadata Sub-indicator 3.8.1.1. Necesidad insatisfecha de atención médica

Goal
Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Target
Target 3.8. Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.
Indicator
Indicator 3.8.1. Coverage of essential health services
Sub-indicator
Sub-indicator 3.8.1.1. Unmet need for medical care
Type of indicator (global, European, national)
  • European (sdg_03_60)
  • National
Definition
Proportion of people aged 16 and over reporting unmet health care needs due to any of the following reasons: Financial reasons, waiting list and too far to travel
Calculation method

$$ PPNIAM_{16+}^{t}=\frac{PNIAM_{16+}^{t}}{P_{16+}^{t}} \cdot 100$$Where \( PNIAM _{16+}^{t}\): population aged 16 and over indicating unmet health care needs in year t and \(P_{16+}^{t}\): population aged 16 and over in year t

Unit of measure
Percentage
Periodicity
Annual
Disaggregated data(Gender, age, region in Spain, other)
Sex, Age, Autonomous Community, Nationality, Type of household, Income decile
Tier
Tier I
Come from National Statistics Plan (YES/NO)
Yes
Statistical operation
Life Conditions Survey (Código IOE: 30453)
Responsible institution
INE junto a AEAT, INSS, Hacienda Tributaria de Navarra, Haciendas Forales del País Vasco
Date of the last metadata update
15/12/2021
Link to United Nations metadata
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/
Custody agency
WHO
Observations

Self-reported unmet needs relate to a person's own assessment of whether he needed a medical examination or treatment (excluding dental care), but he did not have it or did not seek it

  • (1) Reasons: very expensive, far away to access or waiting list problems.
  • (2) Other reasons: not having time, not knowing any good specialist, fear of the doctor or hospitals, medical examinations or treatment, waiting and seeing if the problem improves, other reasons.
  • (*) Serial breakdown. Different question. The value of the subindicator 3.8.1.1 corresponds to the Reasons category