Tag Archives: Health Accounts

Understanding Health Accounts: A Primer for Policymakers

Publications, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA)

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Heather Cogswell and Tesfaye Dereje Published: 1/31/2015 Resource Description: As a country’s economy and population grows, so will its spending on health. Policymakers can affect public and private health spending to improve efficiency, quality, equity, and ultimately save lives. To succeed, however, governments should have the evidence around the health financing landscape. Health Accounts […]

Barbados 2012-13 Health Accounts: Statistical Report

Publications, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA)

The lack of solid up-to-date health financing information for evidence-based planning inspired the Ministry of Health (MOH) to conduct a Health Accounts (HA) exercise. Although the Ministry completed a Health Satellite Accounts (HSA) exercise in 2013, lack of complete National Accounts data resulted in incomplete spending captured for key groups such as commercial insurance

Prominent Health Accounting Approaches Explained

Announcements

Health accounting data that show economic and financial resource flows within a health system are critical to informing health and economic policy – at both national and international levels. However, countries vary widely in their health accounting histories as well as the demand for and capacity to produce these data. A new brief, System of […]

Production and Use of Health Accounts in India: What Can We Learn from the Experience so Far?

Health Finance, Publications, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA)

Health systems worldwide are expanding their capacity to improve people’s welfare. Governments and their development partners in low- and middle-income countries are depending on data to inform health financing decisions, monitor health sector performance, and exercise stewardship. Recognition of the value of health resource data has built momentum for health resource tracking – measuring health […]

System of Health Accounts (2011) and Health Satellite Accounts (2005): Comparison of Approaches

Publications, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA)

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Sharon Nakhimovsky, Patricia Hernandez-Peña, Cornelius van Mosseveld, Alain Palacios Published: June 2014 Resource Description: Accounting data on economic and financial resource flows within the health system are critical to informing health and economic policy at both national and international levels. For the most part, institutions that produce accounting data in the health system recognize the advantages of creating […]

SHA 2011 Explained in New Brief

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Health resource tracking is a vital component of health systems strengthening because it gives stakeholders valuable information about patterns in the financing, provision, and consumption of health care resources. The System of Health Accounts (SHA) is an internationally standardized framework that systematically tracks the flow of expenditures in a health system. The SHA is critical […]

Saint Kitts and Nevis 2011 National Health Accounts and HIV Subaccounts

Publications, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA)

Resource Type: Report Authors: Sharon Nakhimovsky, Roxanne Brizan-St. Martin, Heather Cogswell, Darwin Young, Karl Theodore, Althea LaFoucade, Christine Laptiste, Don Bethelmie, Roger McLean, Stanley Lalta, and Laurel Hatt Published: 10/2013 Resource Description:  Economic growth in St. Kitts and Nevis, a federation with a population of approximately 50,000, was strong over the past decade, averaging more than 3.5 […]

System of Health Accounts 2011: What is SHA 2011 and How Are SHA 2011 Data Produced and Used?

Publications, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA)

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Heather Cogswell,  Catherine Connor, Tesfaye Dereje, Avril Kaplan, and Sharon Nakhimovsky Published: 09/2013 Resource Description: Health resource tracking is the process of measuring health spending and the flow of financial resources among health sector actors. Health resource tracking is a vital component of health systems strengthening as it provides stakeholders with […]

National Health Accounts Production Tool Brief

Health Systems 20/20, Publications, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA), Tools

Resource Type: Brief, Tool Authors: Douglas Glandon Published: 5/1/2012 Resource Description: The National Health Accounts (NHA) framework is an internationally standardized methodology for measuring financial resource flows in the health sector. NHA is designed to provide health expenditure information to policy makers and stakeholders in ways that can be clearly and directly linked to a country’s health financing concerns and health system performance; therefore, it has […]

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