Guide to producing national health accounts with special applications for low-income and middle-income countries.

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Geneva : World Health Organization, c2003.
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Table of 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 acounting. Appendix: converting annual data to quarters
  • Glossary
  • Notes.