National health accounts

Documents related to national health accounts

CORE DOCUMENTS

Guide to producing national health accounts – with special applications for low-income and middle-income countries. WHO, World Bank and USAID, 2005

The Guide walks the reader through the process of acquiring and evaluating data and provides step-by-step examples of how to turn raw numbers into information useful for policy analysis and development.

A System of Health Accounts. OECD, 2000

This OECD manual, provides a standard framework for producing a set of comprehensive, consistent and internationally comparable accounts to meet the needs of public and private-sector health analysts and policy-makers. Available in English, French and Spanishonline in the OECD web site .

The System of National Accounts (SNA 2008)

Consists of macroeconomic accounts, balance sheets and tables based on concepts, definitions, classifications and accounting rules. It provides a comprehensive accounting framework within which economic data can be compiled and presented in a format using economic analysis and policy-making.