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Guide to producing national health accounts : with special applications for low-income and middle-income countries.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- World Health Organization.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health planning--Methodology--Developing countries.
- Health planning.
- Medical care, Cost of--Developing countries.
- Medical care, Cost of.
- Medical economics--Developing countries.
- Medical economics.
- Medical policy--Developing countries.
- Medical policy.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 330 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Geneva : World Health Organization, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- National health accounts are a powerful and practical tool for policy-makers interested in evaluating and restructuring their nation's health care financing and in developing and assessing financial interventions to improve people's health. This Guide to producing national health accounts, with special applications for low-income and middle-income countries, provides practical help in developing this socioeconomic information. Jointly sponsored by the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the United States Agency for International Development, the Guide pulls together the experience and expertise of long-time practitioners in the field to help the reader lay out the framework for a set of accounts. It walks the reader through the process of acquiring and evaluating data and provides step-by-step examples of how to turn raw numbers into information useful for policy analysis and development. Be they first-time health accountants looking for guidance or experienced practitioners looking for a good reference manual, readers will find the Guide to be a welcome addition to their toolkit.
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. Introduction to national health accounts and this guide
- Ch. 2. Getting organized: gathering the resources to prepare national health accounts, and sketching the health system
- Ch. 3. Defining and categorizing health expenditure
- Ch. 4. Classifying entities in the health care system
- Ch. 5. National health accounts tables
- Ch. 6. Data and the national health accounts
- Ch. 7. A guide to non-survey sources of data for national health accounts
- Ch. 8. Developing and using surveys in health accounts
- Ch. 9. Organizing the estimation process: developing a route map and establishing a list of financing agents
- Ch. 10. Making a first approximation of financing agent funds
- Ch. 11. Estimating the financing sources by financing agents table
- Ch. 12. Estimating the financing agents by providers table
- Ch. 13. Developing the tables for financing agents by functions and providers by functions
- Ch. 14. Distributing health expenditure among the population
- Ch. 15. Concluding thoughts
- References
- Annex A. Resources available for health accountants
- Annex B. Definitions of categories in the International classifications for health accounts and in other useful classification schemes
- Annex C. National accounts, input/output tables, and satellite accounts
- Annex D. Data techniques often used in health accounting. Appendix: converting annual data to quarters
- Glossary
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 92-4-068048-9
- 1-280-11599-8
- 9786610115990
- OCLC:
- 55664159
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