QE94

ICD-11 MMS 2026-01

Institutional upbringing

Description

Group foster care in which parenting responsibilities are largely taken over by some form of institution (such as residential nursery, orphanage, or children's home), or therapeutic care over a prolonged period in which the child is in a hospital, convalescent home or the like, without at least one parent living with the child.

Index terms

  • Institutional upbringing
  • institutionalisation affecting child

Sibling codes

  • QE90 – Inadequate parental supervision or control
  • QE91 – Parental overprotection
  • QE92 – Altered pattern of family relationships in childhood
  • QE93 – Removal from home in childhood
  • QE95 – Inappropriate parental pressure or other abnormal qualities of upbringing
  • QE96 – Events resulting in loss of self-esteem in childhood
  • QE9Y – Other specified problems associated with upbringing
  • QE9Z – Problems associated with upbringing, unspecified

Foundation entity

Institutional upbringing – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/448222372

Part of: 24: Factors influencing health status or contact with health services