A System of Health Accounts
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9789264181809
Subjects: Social Issues/Migration/Health
Description: Health care is one of the largest sectors in OECD countries, and accounts now for over 8% of GDP on average. This manual of the System of Health Accounts (Version 1.0) provides a set of comprehensive, consistent and flexible accounts to meet the needs of government and private-sector analysts and policy-makers. These accounts constitute a common framework for enhancing the comparability of data over time and across countries, and suggest basic links with non-monetary indicators. The manual establishes a conceptual basis of statistical reporting rules compatible with other economic and social statistics and proposes a newly developed International Classification for Health Accounts (ICHA) which covers three dimensions: health care by functions of care; providers of health care services; and sources of funding. Once this new accounting standard has been implemented in a large number of OECD countries, it will allow for more consistent and reliable comparisons of health care expenditure across countries.  
Table of contents: title: 1. Principles of the System of Health Accounts; title: Part I. Concepts and Methods for Health Accounts; title: 2. A Set of Standard Tables; title: 3. Basic Functions and Global Boundaries of Health Care; title: 4. Health Care Provider Industries; title: 5. Measurement of Expenditure on Health Care; title: 6. Health Care Funding; title: 7. Price and Volume Measurement; title: 8. The SHA and Health Satellite Analysis and Accounts; title: Part II. International Classification for Health Accounts (ICHA); title: 9. ICHA-HC Functional Classification of Health Care; title: 10. ICHA-HP Classification of Health Care Providers; title: 11. ICHA-HF Classification of Health Care Financing; title: Annex 1. Measurement of Human Resources in Health Care; title: Annex 2. International Classification of Procedures in Medicine; title: Annex 3. International Classification of Primay Care; title: Annex 4. Health in the Central Product Classification; title: Annex 5. Health Care in ISIC, Third Revision; title: Anenx 6. Health in the SNA Classifications according to Purpose; title: Acronyms; title: Bibliography