Country ProfilesNicaragua

Updates From the LAC Health Accounts Steering Committee

August 2002

Nicaragua has conducted several health expenditures and financing studies, and participated in the original LAC health accounts activities in 1997 supported by PHRplus. The first estimates were conducted for 1995 and 1996 using the Harvard methodology. During 2001 and 2002, with financial support from USAID and technical assistance from Harvard, the Inter-Institutional Committee coordinated by the Ministry of Health produced a 1997-2001 series of estimates using the OECD SHA methodology, and revised the data from 1995 and 1996 in order to adapt it to the new OECD SHA classification system. 

During its 2001 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) supported by USAID, Nicaragua included a health expenditures module, which made available new private sector estimates. A report containing the 1995-2001 series and an equity analysis is being prepared with the support of the USAID. Nicaragua has a solid institutionalization process under way for the annual production of health accounts estimates.

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Health Account Data

- Health Accounts Data Spreadsheets - 237 KB, XLS
- WHO Health Expenditures Spreadsheets - 125 KB, XLS
- WHO Health Expenditures Spreadsheets - 47 KB, PDF
- WHO National Health Accounts Country Information (Website)

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Evaluación de la Política Nacional de Salud 1997-2002 This 2004 document was presented by Sanigest Internacinoal to the Secretariat for Coordination and Strategy of the Presidency of Nicaragua.
Proyección de Gasto en Salud por Fuente de Financiamiento 2005-2015 A 2004 report prepared by the Ministry of Health of Nicaragua
Matrices del Financiamiento de Salud 1997-1999 Recent health financing estimates and graphical analyses prepared by the Ministry of Health of Nicaragua
Matrices del Financiamiento de Salud 2000-2001 Recent health financing estimates and graphical analyses prepared by the Ministry of Health of Nicaragua

Matrices del Financiamiento de Salud 2002

Recent health financing estimates and graphical analyses prepared by the Ministry of Health of Nicaragua
Cuentas Nacionales de Salud: Matrices para 1995-1996 KB, XLS Nicaragua health accounts matrices for 1995 and 1996, produced according to the OECD-SHA methodology
Cuentas Nacionales en VIH/SIDA - Nicaragua 296 KB, PDF National HIV/AIDS Accounts Report, 2000

Cuentas Nacionales de VIH/SIDA 2000 309 KB, XLS

Data matrices for National HIV/AIDS Accounts in Nicaragua
Cuentas Nacionales de Salud: Nicaragua 1995-1996 371 KB, PDF National health accounts report written in 1999 with the support of PAHO and USAID
Cuentas Nacionales de Salud: Nicaragua 1995-1996 (Resumen) 139 KB, PDF Summary of the above report
Nicaragua - Public expenditure review - improving the poverty focus of public spending This Public Expenditure Review has two broad objectives. The first is to analyze the pattern and evolution of public expenditures in Nicaragua with a view toward assessing their consistency with the priorities expressed in the recent Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), as well as recommending ways to improve their poverty reducing impact. The second objective of the PER is to diagnose Nicaragua ' s institutional capacity to implement the poverty reduction programs to be defined in the PRSP and recommend measures for raising that capacity.
Country at a Glance table Key indicators tracing the trends in social and economic development over the last three decades from the World Bank's database
Modifications to the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative The IMF and the World Bank have designed a framework to provide special assistance for heavily indebted poor countries that pursue IMF- and World Bank-supported adjustment and reform programs, but for whom traditional debt relief mechanisms are insufficient. The HIPC Initiative entails coordinated action by the international financial community, including multilateral institutions, to reduce to sustainable levels the external debt burden of these countries. This factsheet describes the HIPC Initiative including the enhancements in September 1999.
Nicaragua Living Standards Measurement Survey, 1993 Questionnaires and other documentation
Nicaragua Living Standards Measurement Survey, 1998 Questionnaires and other documentation
Nicaragua: Basic Socioeconomic Data Compiled by the World Bank
Nicaragua: PAHO Country Health Profile PAHO's summary information on health conditions and the structure of the health system
Summary of Health Accounts in Eight LAC Countries 666 KB, PDF Report prepared by the LAC Health Reform Initiative (information on Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru)
Related Organizations
Banco Central de Nicaragua The Central Bank of Nicaragua
Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INEC), Nicaragua The National Institute of Statistics of Nicaragua
Ministerio de Hacienda y Crédito Público, Nicaragua The Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of Nicaragua
Ministerio de Salud de Nicaragua (MINSA) The Ministry of Health of Nicaragua
Oficina Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) en Nicaragua PAHO Office in Nicaragua
USAID Nicaragua USAID Mission in Nicaragua
Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) en Nicaragua UNDP Office in Nicaragua
Universidad Autónoma de Nicaragua, Leon The Autonomous University of Nicaragua, Leon
MECOVI Nicaragua (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 Nicaraguan 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, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, and Peru.

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