The 57 health-expenditure indicators that serve as candidate mediators in WHO_health_mediation, with their short codes and descriptions. The codes and their order are those of Table S.7 in the supplement to Yu and Kelley (in press); the descriptions are adapted from that table rather than copied, abbreviating some spelled-out denominators (for example "as % of GDP" for "as % of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)" and "as % of CHE" for "as % of Current Health Expenditure (CHE)"). Many indicators are alternative normalizations of the same underlying spending (per capita, percent of GDP, percent of current health expenditure, current versus constant 2021 currency, national currency versus US dollars versus purchasing power parity), which is why they are strongly intercorrelated.
Format
A data.frame with 57 rows and 2 columns:
- indicator
The short indicator code, matching a column name in WHO_health_mediation (for example
gge_gdp,shi_che).- description
The full indicator name. Common abbreviations: CHE (current health expenditure), GGHE-D (domestic general government health expenditure), PVT-D (domestic private health expenditure), EXT (external health expenditure), OOPS (out-of-pocket spending), SHI (social health insurance), GGE (general government expenditure), GDP (gross domestic product), NCU (national currency unit), PPP (purchasing power parity).
Source
Adapted from Table S.7 ("A List of Health Spending Indicators and the Associated Indicator Code used in Real Data Analysis") of the supplement to Yu and Kelley (in press); underlying definitions from the WHO Global Health Expenditure Database.
References
Yu, X., & Kelley, K. (in press). Power Enhancement in High-Dimensional Heterogeneous Mediation Analysis. Journal of the American Statistical Association.
See also
WHO_health_mediation, WHO_mediation_design().
Other WHO mediation data:
WHO_health_mediation,
WHO_mediation_analysis(),
WHO_mediation_design()
Examples
data(WHO_indicator_codebook)
head(WHO_indicator_codebook)
#> indicator
#> 1 che_gdp
#> 2 che_pc_usd
#> 3 che
#> 4 gghed
#> 5 pvtd
#> 6 ext
#> description
#> 1 Current Health Expenditure (CHE) as % of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
#> 2 Current Health Expenditure (CHE) per capita in US$
#> 3 Current Health Expenditure (CHE)
#> 4 Domestic General Government Health Expenditure (GGHE-D)
#> 5 Domestic Private Health Expenditure (PVT-D)
#> 6 External Health Expenditure (EXT)
# Look up a mediator flagged in the article's analysis.
WHO_indicator_codebook[WHO_indicator_codebook$indicator == "gge_gdp", ]
#> indicator description
#> 26 gge_gdp General Government Expenditure (GGE) as % of GDP