Creating Health AccountsDisseminating Results

The OECD A System of Health Accounts manual and the Producers’ Guide for Low- and Middle-Income Countries provide ways to assemble, organize, and present health accounts data in order to communicate the results to policymakers and the general public.  

It is often useful to simplify the presentation, and to use graphs to convey quantitative information. On this page we will share some presentations that have been used in various countries to disseminate health accounts findings.

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Documents
Estudios de Cuentas de Salud en Argentina 182 KB, PPT This presentation of a health accounts study conducted in Argentina in 2000, and of its results, was presented by Monica Levcovich of the Association for Health Economics at the 2004 EUROLAC Forum.
Cuentas de Salud de Colombia 1993-2002: Aplicaciones y Perspectivas 754 KB, PPT In his presentation at the 2004 EUROLAC Forum, José Fernando Arias of the National Department of Planning described Colombia's 10 years of experiences conducting health accounts estimates.
El Sistema Nacional de Salud y las Cuentas de la Salud en España 1.1 MB, PPT This presentation describing the characteristics of the Spanish health care system, and the results of annual health accounts conducted there, was given at the 2004 EUROLAC Forum by Jorge Relaño of the Ministry of Health of Spain. 
Uso de Cuentas Nacionales de Salud en la Formulación de Políticas de Salud: México 283 KB, PPT Maria Fernanda Merino of the Ministry of Health of Mexico presented about health accounts activities taking place there at the national and state levels, and how the results of these estimates have been used to formulate health policies.
National Health Accounts in the Czech Republic 51 KB, PPT This presentation was given at the 2003 OECD Meeting of Experts in NHA, and describes the present state and implementation of the OECD System of Health Accounts Methodology.
National Health Accounts Study: Turkey 682 KB, PPT A detailed and informative presentation about the 2000 health accounts study conducted in Turkey, and about the challenges faced and questions ultimately answered.
Cuentas Nacionales de Salud en América Latina 55 KB, PPT Presentation given by André Medici of the IDB about the importance of health accounts, the motivation for conducting them, and the Bank's present and future activities supporting health accounts estimates.
Health Accounts – Applications, Impact and Methods 660 KB, PDF This PowerPoint presentation, prepared by the World Bank and ABT Associates Inc in 2000, discusses, among other things, what methods, processes and institutional arrangements are needed to develop and maintain Health Accounts.
Measuring Health Systems Performance and NHA 87 KB, PPT This presentation by Akiko Maeda of the World Bank discusses the role health accounts can play in measuring health system performance, the challenges faced in attempting to measure efficiency and quality of health care, and the need for improved data collection and evaluation.
Organizations
PARIS21 (A PowerPoint presentation about PARIS21 can be viewed here, and advocacy videos can be downloaded here) PARIS21 or Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century was established in 1999 in response to the UN Economic and Social Council resolution on the goals of the UN Conference on Development. It was launched to act as a catalyst for promoting a culture of evidence-based policymaking and monitoring in all countries, and especially in developing countries. The Consortium is a partnership of policymakers, analysts, and statisticians from all countries of the world, and focuses on promoting high-quality statistics, making the data meaningful, and designing sound policies. PARIS21 aims to foster more effective dialogue among those who produce development statistics and those who use them, through facilitating international events, supporting country-based activities, regional workshops, and subject matter task teams.
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