El Salvador

Updates From the LAC Health Accounts Steering Committee

November 2003

In 2003, the El Salvadorian health accounts team, composed of representatives of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance, the General Directorate of Statistics and Censuses, the Central Reserve Bank, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of National Defense, and the El Salvadorian Institute of Social Security, completed the most recent of the series of five annual estimates (that began in 1996), although full institutionalization still presents a challenge.

August 2002

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Related Organizations
Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador	The Central Bank of El Salvador
BVS	Biblioteca Virtual en Salud (BVS) para la promoción de la cooperación técnica en información hacia y entre los países de América Latine y el Caribe.
Ministerio de Salud Pública y Asistencia Social de El Salvador	The Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance of El Salvador
MECOVI El Salvador (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 El Salvadorean 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, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Peru.
The World Bank