Updates From the LAC Health Accounts Steering Committee

May 2004

The Bolivian team has applied the Harvard methodology with some modifications, based on the needs and characteristics of the country.  Matrices of health sector financial flows and expenditures for the years 1995-1998 were published in 2000. The National Institute of Statistics provided a portion of the data.  The study is being updated and more recent estimates will be published in 2004.  Among the challenges encountered by the Bolivian team was the collection of private sector data and disaggregate data on external financing.

The Bolivian health accounts estimates activities have been financed by USAID and by the British cooperation through the Abrir Salud Project (see Links).

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Documents
Bolivia: PAHO Country Health Profile	Summary information on health conditions and the structure of the health system
Bolivia's Country-At-A-Glance World Bank Brief	Key indicators tracing the trends in social and economic development over the last three decades from the World Bank's database
Dossier de Estadísticas Sociales y Económicas, vol. 13, 2003	UDAPE's 2003 Dossier of Economic and Social Statistics contains social expenditure data, including health, and is available on-line or on a CD-ROM.
Cuentas Nacionales en VIH/SIDA: Bolivia 1999/2000	The estimates of financial flows and expenditures in HIV/AIDS in Bolivia for the years 1999 and 2000, were published with the support of SIDALAC.
Cuentas Nacionales de Salud: Bolivia 331 KB, PDF	This report, prepared in 1998 by the national health accounts expert Marina Cárdenas with the support of PHRplus/USAID, contains estimates of financing flows and national expenditures in health for the years 1995 and 1996.
Cuentas Nacionales de Salud: Bolivia (Resumen) 151 KB, PDF	A two-page summary of the above report, published by PAHO
Resource Mobilization for the Health Sector in Bolivia	This research paper was prepared in 1996 by Marina Cárdenas and Jorge Muñoz for Harvard's "Data for Decision-Makers" Project, with the support of USAID.
Summary of Health Accounts in Eight LAC Countries 666 KB, PDF	This report about health accounts estimates in Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru, was written in 1999 by Peter Berman and others at the Harvard School of Public Health, with USAID funding.

Organizations
Banco Central de Bolivia	Central Bank of Bolivia
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)	The National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia
Ministerio de Hacienda y Desarrollo Económico	Ministry of Finance and Economic Development of Bolivia
Ministerio de Salud y Deportes (MSD)	Ministry of Health and Sports of Bolivia
Unidad de Análisis de Políticas Sociales y Económicas (UDAPE)	UDAPE conducts research, studies, and formulates proposals in the areas of social policy, macroeconomic stability, and sector economic performance, under the supervision of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development.
MECOVI Bolivia (Household Survey Data)	IADB, together with the World Bank, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and with direct participation of the Bolivian government, has developed this initiative to strengthen the institutional capacity of the country to implement and analyze high quality household survey systems.  The initiative also operates in Argentina, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Peru.
Bolivia National Accounts Data - IMF/GDDS	The IMF General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) provides economic, financial and socio-demographic metadata submitted by participating countries. Current statistical practices of each country are described, together with their plans to improve their statistical systems.  Presently, 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries participate, including Bolivia.
Abrir Salud Project	This project financed by the British Department for International Development (DFID) supports the Bolivian health reform. (The website is not operational. January 2006)