Healthcare Benefits Participants (OI4061)

This metric is intended to capture how many employees received healthcare through the organization’s benefits during the reporting period. Types of healthcare benefits provided by the organization could include primary care, outpatient care, inpatient care, maternal services, dental care, vision care, hearing care, prescription drugs, prenatal care, mental health services, family planning, and preventative screening, among others. Organizations should footnote which types of benefits are provided.

This metric is multi-dimensional with regard to the five dimensions of impact: it may help describe the WHO dimension when the stakeholder group represented by the metric is the stakeholder group targeted by the investment or organization. It may also help measure the HOW MUCH Scale dimension, which helps estimate the number of the targeted stakeholders experiencing the outcome. For more on the alignment of IRIS metrics to the five dimensions of impact, see IRIS+ and the Five Dimensions of Impact (https://iris.thegiin.org/document/iris-and-the-five-dimensions/). No single metric is sufficient to understand an impact; rather, metrics are selected as a set across all dimensions of impact. When possible, the selection of metrics to measure and describe the five dimensions should be based on best practice and evidence.