96 Human Rights Indicators
Outcome
Process
Structural
Table 9
Affordable access to health care
Family, child and
dependent-adult support
Targeted social assistance schemes
• Date of entry into force and coverage of
regulation on mandatory health insurance
• Time frame and coverage of national policy on
health and access to health care, including for
reproductive health and for persons
with disabilities
• Time frame and coverage of national policy
on drugs, including on generic drugs
• Date of entry into force and coverage
of public support for families,
including single-parent families,
children and dependent adults
• Legally prescribed qualifying period,
rate of contribution, duration and rate
of allowances
• Time frame and coverage of social
assistance programmes and
non-contributory schemes for persons
in specific situations of need
(e.g., IDPs, refugees, war victims,
long-term unemployed persons,
homeless persons)
• Time frame and coverage of national
policy on unemployment
• Proportion of population covered by health
insurance (public or private)
• Proportion of population that renounced
health-care services during the past 12 months
for economic reasons, by service (e.g., dental
care, medical consultation, drugs, surgery)
• Proportion of labour force participating in
social security scheme(s)
• Proportion of workers covered under social
security who requested and received social
security benefits in the reporting period
• Proportions of entitled families,
children and dependent adults
receiving public support
• Public expenditure on family, children
and dependent-adult allowance or
benefit schemes per beneficiary
• Proportion of household expenditure
(food, health, day care, education,
housing) on children and dependent
adults covered by public support
• (Improvement in) Density of nursery/
childcare centres and nursing homes
for the targeted population or regions
in the reporting period
• Proportion of population in specific
situations of need receiving social
assistance for food, housing, health
care, education, emergency or relief
services
• Public expenditures for targeted social
assistance schemes per beneficiary
• (Improvement in) Density of
administrative offices and personnel
providing targeted social assistance
• Proportion of requests for social
assistance (e.g., income transfer,
subsidized housing, disaster relief)
reviewed and met
* MDG-related indicators
All indicators should be disaggregated by prohibited grounds of discrimination, as applicable and reflected in metadata sheets
• Proportion of individuals in the formal or informal economy below national poverty line before and after social transfers*
• Per capita public expenditure on primary
health facilities (including for reproductive
health care) and essential medicines
• Number of targeted individuals newly
registered as participant in the health
insurance system in the reporting period
• Proportion of household expenditures on
health goods and services covered by health
insurance / public support
• Proportion of births attended by skilled health
personnel*
• Proportion of target population within X hour(s)
of medical and paramedical personnel and
relevant health-care facilities
• Number of workers newly registered as
participant in the social security scheme in the
reporting period
• Proportion of requests for benefits
(e.g., unemployment benefit, pension)
reviewed and met in the reporting period
• Proportion of cases or complaints concerning
social security obligations of enterprises
effectively responded to by Government or
relevant social security agency
• Proportion of enterprises covered under
domestic social security regulations and
proportion thereof subjected to administrative
action or prosecution
• Proportion of received complaints on the right to social security investigated and adjudicated by the national human rights institution, human rights ombudsperson or other relevant
mechanisms and the proportion of these responded to effectively by the Government
• Proportion of targeted population appropriately informed of its entitlements and benefits (in cash or in kind) under the applicable social security schemes
• Net official development assistance for implementing this right, received or provided as a proportion of public expenditure on social security and gross national income
• Date of entry into force and coverage of
insurance or tax-based social security scheme
• Legally prescribed qualifying period, rate of
contribution, duration (e.g., length of maternity
leave) and rate of benefits under different
schemes
• Date of entry into force and coverage of
international agreements on export of social
security benefits (including on double taxation)
to country of origin for migrant workers
and families
• International human rights and ILO treaties relevant to the right to social security ratified by the State
• Date of entry into force and coverage of the right to social security in the constitution or other forms of superior law
• Date of entry into force and coverage of domestic laws for implementing the right to social security, including in the event of sickness, old age, unemployment, employment-related injury,
maternity, paternity, disability or invalidity, survivors and orphans, health care (including reproductive health care), and family and child support
• Time frame and coverage of policy for universal implementation of the right to social security
Income security for workers
Illustrative indicators on the right to social security (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 22)
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