3.A.6 Number of patients in chronic medical care homes per 10 thous. Population
Sustainable Development Goal
Goal 3. Good health and well-being
Priority
Increasing access to public health services
Definition
Number of patients in care and treatment facilities per 10 thousand people.
Unit
persons
Available dimensions
total
Methodological explanations
A care and treatment facility is a medical facility of a medical entity or an organizational unit of a medical facility in which the medical entity performs medical activities such as stationary and 24-hour health services other than hospital services. The services may consist in particular in providing 24-hour health services, which include care and rehabilitation of patients who do not require hospitalization, and providing them with medicinal products and medical devices, premises and food appropriate to their health condition, as well as conducting health education for patients and members of their families and preparing these people for self-care and self-care at home.
