Our Purpose
The main objective of this website is to present updated information on definitions, concepts,
accounting procedures, and the empirical results of health accounts and national health
accounts studies. It provides links to PAHO's Regional
National Healthcare Expenditures (NHEx) Database, and to other
regional and global databases containing social expenditure and
development indicators.
The website also describes and provides
links to methodological guidelines on the development of
health accounts estimates and
economic and financial indicators for the health sector, to working
papers, and to country studies and reports. The latter include
studies of national health care expenditures and sources of
financing, as well as studies reporting standard economic indicators
for health accounts.
Our primary aim is to provide clear information to stakeholders
involved in making decisions in the health sector. In addition
we aim to keep all those working or studying in the field of health
accounts informed about the ongoing discussions about conceptual and
methodological issues related to the definition of boundaries of the
health sector, classification of national health care expenditures,
data sources, and international comparisons of national expenditures
and sources of financing. Finally, we hope that this website
will serve to increase the sharing and exchange of information and
knowledge on health accounts, and thus contribute to evidence-driven
decision-making in all countries.
Who We AreThis website was created by the
LAC Health Accounts working group of the
interagency initiative Shared Agenda for Health (SAH),
based in Washington, DC. SAH is a partnership formed by the
following international organizations, for collaboration in the area
of health:
Inter-American Development Bank
(IDB)
Pan-American Health Organization
(PAHO)
US Agency for International
Development (USAID)
 World
Bank (WB)
Through the LAC Health Accounts Working Group,
IDB, PAHO, USAID and WB are working together to promote the
production and use of health accounts in the Latin America and
Caribbean region, as a public good and an essential element of the
countries' infrastructure. All four organizations are committed to providing
technical and financial support for sound policymaking based on solid
empirical evidence, and are collaborating to make their resources go
further.
Information about the LAC Health Accounts Working Group's objectives may be obtained
from its Coordinated
Action Plan 2002-2004. To learn more about the Shared Agenda for
Health in the Americas initiative, please visit the related PAHO
webpage.
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Documents |
| Shared
Agenda For Health Statement 117
KB,
PDF |
The original Shared Agenda for Health
statement co-signed by the three partner organizations: IDB,
PAHO, and WB.
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| Shared
Agenda for Health 2001 Anniversary Report 72
KB, PDF |
Report outlining the activities
undertaken during the first year of the Shared Agenda for
Health partnership [Also available in Spanish].
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| PAHO
Presentation about the Shared Agenda for Health 3.8
MB,
PDF |
Presentation outlining the objectives,
organization, and modes of collaboration of the Shared Agenda
for Health and its members.
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| Shared
Agenda for Health - Health Accounts Working Group Action Plan
2002-2004 383
KB,
PDF |
The 2002-2004 plan of action of the
SAH Health Accounts Working Group outlines the follow-up
actions that the partner institutions have decided to
undertake in a collaborative and coordinated fashion. Actions
are organized and financed under existing institutional
projects and programs, such as IDB and WB lending operations, USAID's
global and regional technical assistance programs, and PAHO's
Health Accounts Program.
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Organizations |
| IDB
Inter-American Institute for Social Development (INDES) |
Learn more about IDB's program for
education and sharing knowledge with policymakers. |
| PAHO
Health Systems Program |
Find technical papers at the website
for PAHO's Program on Organization and Management of Health
Systems and Services. |
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PHRplus/USAID
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USAID has been supporting
global-level activities related with health accounts through
the Partners
for Health Reform Plus (PHRplus) project. It's
website is a rich source of information about events and projects,
bibliographic references, and articles in both Spanish and
English. |
| USAID
on health in Latin America and the Caribbean |
USAID collaborates with PAHO
and other organizations through, among others, the Regional
Initiative for Health Sector Reform in Latin America and the
Caribbean. Available in English and Spanish,
this website includes analyses of the health sector, tools and
analytic benchmarks, and a virtual library on health sector
reform. In addition, information on health activities of
USAID can be found on the websites of its missions in
the Dominican
Republic, El
Salvador, Honduras,
Jamaica,
Nicaragua,
and Peru.
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| World
Bank Institute |
Learn more about the World Bank
Institute and its learning programs. |
| World
Bank Statistical Capacity Building Program |
This site provides access to
resources that can help provide countries and international
organizations with better statistics, through the development
of better statistical capacity. |
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