Glossary:Sickness-health care function
This function covers:
- cash benefits that replace in whole or in part loss of earnings during temporary inability to work due to sickness or injury;
- medical care provided in the framework of social protection to maintain, restore or improve the health of the people protected.
Further information
Regulation (EC) No 458/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 April 2007 on the European system of integrated social protection statistics (ESSPROS)
Regulation (EC) No10/2008 of 8 January 2008 implementing Regulation (EC) No 458/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European system of integrated social protection statistics (ESSPROS)