Z59.19 Other inadequate housing

Instructional Notes:

Z59.19
Description: Other inadequate housing
Inclusion Term:
- Pest infestation
- Restriction of space
- Technical defects in home preventing adequate care
- Unsatisfactory surroundings
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Z59.1
Description: Inadequate housing
Exclude2:
- problems related to the natural and physical environment (Z77.1-)
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Z59
Description: Problems related to housing and economic circumstances
Exclude2:
- problems related to upbringing (Z62.-)
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Z55-Z65
Description: Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)
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Z00-Z99
Description: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Notes:
- 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:
- (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.
- (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.