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 Sustaining
Health AccountsTo date, most health accounts exercises
in countries of the LAC region have been conducted once,
or at most a few times. They have rarely been incorporated into the
routine “business” of the health, statistics or finance ministries.
However, efforts are underway to identify the ways in which health
accounts can be institutionalized as a basic function of the state,
and thereby provide on-going monitoring of health expenditures and
the impact of reforms and specific policies. Helping countries
to institutionalize health accounts is the main objective of the
IDB-PAHO-WB-USAID partnership.
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Documents |
| World Bank's
Public Expenditure On-line
Website |
A rich source of
public expenditure management resources, such as on-line
documents, Public
Expenditure Reviews, manuals,
journals,
seminars,
courses. |
| Using
National Health Accounts to Make Health Sector Policy:
Findings of a Latin America/ Caribbean Regional
Workshop 97 KB, PDF |
This report describes
the topics discussed at a two part meeting entitled, “Using
NHA to Inform Decision Making in the Health Sector.” It
summarizes issues raised by participants—specifically about
the NHA methodology, such as difficulties in data collection,
and more generally about integrating NHA into the health
sector reform policy process. |
| World Bank's
Public Expenditure Tracking
Surveys |
This research
explores the transformation mechanism from public expenditure
to public goods, using public expenditure tracking surveys
(PETS) of service facilities and, in some cases, surveys of
firms (the latter on infrastructure services). The PETS
typically collects information on facility characteristics,
financial flows, outputs, accountability arrangements, etc.
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