Data used in the forecasting model come from multiple data sources.
In general there are three sources available:
- the federal database of registered health professionals which includes “licensed to practice” (in Federal Public Services health);
- the National Institute of Health Insurance and Disability for information about the “practicing”, i.e. the persons whose medical acts are reimbursed by the health insurance (this does not necessarily include all medical activity of a given group of professionals);
- the Crossroads Bank for Social Security for information about those professionals, who are “working” as employees and information about other socio-economic situations (unemployed, retired…).
In order to link these sources, a specific “research request” has to be approved by the Commission for the Protection of the Privacy. Therefore the planning commission do not always get all the information they ask for. The level of detail of the requested variables needs to be restricted in some instances to prevent identification of individual health care professionals.
At last, from the authorities competent for education, aggregated data is sourced on the number of inscriptions, students and obtained degrees.
The Crossroads Bank manages the collection of numerous administrative databases from the Belgian social security sector.
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