Code
Hierarchy
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Z00-Z99 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
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Z55-Z65 Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)
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Z59 Problems related to housing and economic circumstances
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Z59.0 Homelessness
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Z59.1 Inadequate housing
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Z59.2 Discord with neighbors, lodgers and landlord
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Z59.3 Problems related to living in residential institution
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Z59.4 Lack of adequate food
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Z59.5 Extreme poverty
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Z59.6 Low income
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Z59.7 Insufficient social insurance and welfare support
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Z59.8 Other problems related to housing and economic circumstances
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Z59.9 Problem related to housing and economic circumstances, unspecified
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Notes
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Z codes represent reasons for encounters. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a Z code if a procedure is performed. Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as 'diagnoses' or 'problems'. This can arise in two main ways:
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(a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination (immunization), or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.
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(b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury.