Annex 3: Policy categories and subcategories for public health and social measures (PHSM Taxonomy)

Overview

This classification matrix helps place public health and social measures (PHSM) policies into cascaded categories, starting from a first level-PHSM category and moving down to identify the second-level PHSM category, and its associated high-level indicators (Table A3.1).

Categorizing PHSM policies using this taxonomy is a critical step in the data collection process, so it is important to ensure that the monitoring team works in a harmonized way to guarantee that the classification of measures is consistent and clear within the appropriate taxonomy category.