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 Chile
Updates From the LAC Health Accounts Steering Committee
May 2004
Chile has one study of health
expenditures and financing, conducted for the year 2000 by El Fondo
Nacional de Salud (FONASA), although preparations are still under
way to publish a satellite health accounts study for the years
2000-2003 in collaboration with the Central Bank of Chile's
Department of National Accounts.
August 2002 Systematic
health accounts estimates in Chile have been suspended for a number
of years until 2000, when FONASA (a public health insurance institution
linked to the Ministry of Health) restarted conducting estimates
with the support of PAHO.
A new health accounts report produced up-to-date
estimates on health expenditure and financing using the Harvard/NHA
matrices. A future extension of the study will include the
harmonization of concepts and classifications with the Central Bank's
National Accounting System (SNA) and with its input-output tables,
as well as the development of health accounts at the regional and
provincial
levels.
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General
Sources of Country Data
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Documents |
| Chile:
PAHO Country Health Profile |
Summary
information on health conditions and the structure of the
health system |
| Chile'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 |
| Gasto
Público en Salud 1990-2002 40
KB, XLS |
These tables
were obtained from the FONASA
website, where they and other data can be found under the Institución/Estadísticas
menu item. |
| Equity
in the financing of social security for health in Chile |
R. Bitran, Health
Policy 50(3):171-196. This study examines the
degree of equity in the financing of FONASA, the public
insurer, which in 1995 covered 8.6 million beneficiaries, or
62% of the country’s population. Study results, covering
calendar year 1995, indicated that (1) government health
subsidies were well-targeted, with about 90% reaching the
indigent and 8% going to other, low-income
beneficiaries. FONASA’s finances would improve
significantly if affiliation to health social security by both
dependent and independent workers was made compulsory. |
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