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Population and Housing Census 2017, Third Round

West Bank and Gaza, 2017
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Health Insurance (Q66)

Data file: Members-en 2017

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Valid: 882822
Invalid: 57791
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 9
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

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Literal question
Health Insurance
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 No health insurance 184737
19.6%
1 Governmental only 279589
29.7%
2 UNRWA only 131790
14%
3 Private only 14716
1.6%
4 Governmental and UNRWA 249450
26.5%
5 Govern-mental and Private 1765
0.2%
6 UNRWA and Private 5919
0.6%
7 Israeli 5748
0.6%
8 Other 2684
0.3%
9 Not stated 6424
0.7%
Sysmiss 57791
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

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

Types of Health Insurance:
· Government insurance: means the insurance of the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
· Private insurance: Insurance is supervised and operated by private insurance companies such as Trust, Arab, Mashreq, Gaza and other companies. These companies issue health insurance for employees of institutions and companies, and individuals for an agreed fee. This insurance covers specific treatment services (health centers, Hospitals, doctors, pharmacies, laboratories, etc).
· Israeli insurance: is the insurance for the Jerusalem identity holders, which is supervised and managed by the Israeli Ministry of Health through private companies providing therapeutic services, including Israeli social security.
· UNRWA insurance: Every registered refugee and has a registration card (provisions), who is entitled to receive treatment services at UNRWA centers for free.
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