HC.1-2 Expenditure on curative and rehabilitative care
This item comprises medical and paramedical services delivered during an episode of curative and/or rehabilitative care.
An episode of curative care is one in which the principal medical intent is to relieve symptoms of illness or injury, to reduce the severity of an illness or injury or to protect against exacerbation and/or complication of an illness and/or injury which could threaten life or normal function.
Rehabilitative care comprises services where the emphasis lies on improving the functional levels of the persons served and where the functional limitations are either due to a recent event of illness or injury or of a recurrent nature (regression or progression). Included are services delivered to persons where the onset of disease or impairment to be treated occurred further in the past or has not been subject to prior rehabilitation services.