But the formal classification of diseases has another aspect, one that concerns a variety of important social functions. It provides a set of disease names and numeric codes for assigning and tracking health-care expenditures and services.
但是疾病的正式分类还有另外一个方面，它关系到许多重要社会职能。它为分配及追踪健康医疗开销和服务提供了全套疾病名字和数字代码。政府、保险公司和病人在记账与制定预算时也使用这些名字和代码。