Guide to producing national health accounts [[electronic resource] ] : with special applications for low-income and middle-income countries

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780284003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Geneva, : World Health Organization, c2003
• ISBN: 92-4-068048-9; 1-280-11599-8; 9786610115990
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 330 p
• Soggetti: Health planning - Methodology - Developing countries; Medical care, Cost of - Developing countries; Medical economics - Developing countries; Medical policy - Developing countries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.