Comptes de la Sante au Burundi: 2012-2013
April 1, 2015(This is the Burundi National Health Accounts in French.) La démarche d’élaboration des Comptes de la Santé (CS) trouve toute son importance non seulement dans le besoin d’informations financières fiables pour la prise de décision dans le secteur de …
Understanding Health Accounts: A Primer for Policymakers
January 31, 2015Resource 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 im …
Barbados 2012-13 Health Accounts: Statistical Report
December 15, 2014The 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 …
Production and Use of Health Accounts in India: What Can We Learn from the Experience so Far?
June 30, 2014Health 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 perfor …
System of Health Accounts (2011) and Health Satellite Accounts (2005): Comparison of Approaches
June 25, 2014Resource 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 critic …
Developing Haiti’s First Health Financing Strategy
May 8, 2014As Haiti continues to rebuild its health system after the devastating 2010 earthquake, the Ministry of Health is addressing the dual challenge of how to mobilize sufficient funds for health care and how to efficiently manage and allocate those resour …
Grenada General Hospital Costing 2012
December 3, 2013Resource Type: Report Authors: Benjamin Johns, Stephen Musau, Michele Abbott, and Abigail Vogus Published: 12/2013 Resource Description: Grenada is considering developing a National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme to provide sustainable health sector …
Dominica 2010-2011 National Health Accounts and HIV Subaccounts
November 6, 2013Resource Type: Report Authors: Karishmah Bhuwanee, Don Bethelmie, Heather Cogswell, Darwin Young, Karl Theodore, Althea LaFoucade, Christine Laptiste, Roger McLean, Roxanne Brizan-St. Martin, Stanley Lalta, and Laurel Hatt Published: 11/2013 Resource …
Saint Kitts and Nevis 2011 National Health Accounts and HIV Subaccounts
October 6, 2013Resource 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 …
An Analysis of Spending on Prevention and Public Health in Africa
September 14, 2013Resource Type: Report Authors: Avril Kaplan, Sharon Nakhimovsky, Andrew Won, and Carlos Avila Published: 08/25/2013 Resource Description: In an effort to examine government and donor spending on health promotion and disease prevention compared to o …