OECD publications on SHA-based National Health Accounts

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OECD publications on SHA-based National Health
Accounts

• 6th Meeting of Health Accounts Experts and
  Correspondents for Health Expenditure Data
• Paris, 30 September and 1 October 2004

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Overview

• Main purposes of dissemination of SHA results
• SHA-related working and technical papers
• SHA Implementation web-page
• Involvement by member countries
• Tasks related to dissemination of SHA results
• Issues for discussion

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SHA-Based National Health Accounts in Thirteen
OECD Countries

• A Comparative Analysis OECD Health Working
  Papers No.16
• Country Studies OECD Health Technical Papers
  1-13
• Australia, Canada, Denmark
• Germany, Hungary, Japan
• Korea, Mexico, Netherlands
• Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey

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Main purposes of dissemination of SHA results

• To provide / facilitate
• policy-relevant, comparative data and analysis on
  health expenditure
• harmonisation across national health accounting
  practice
• methodological development in member countries
• data sources for research
• availability of country-specific SHA results

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SHA-related working and technical papers

• The framework of the comparative and the country
  papers can be considered as appropriate for
  future studies
• Comparative study biennially
• Analysis of comparative SHA tables
• Time series
• Special focus in each paper
• Individual country studies in OECD Technical
  Papers series as they become available

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SHA Implementation web-page

• Country studies
• SHA tables with short methodological notes
• Interim reports about SHA implementation
• Methodological studies on implementation of the
  SHA
• Links to web-pages of institutions in member
  countries
• Other relevant information (e.g. diagrams of
  health financing systems)
• www.oecd.org/health/sha

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Involvement by member countries

• Success of this work depends primarily on
  contributions by member countries. This needs
• Further harmonisation across SHA-based national
  health accounts
• Institutionalisation of producing SHA-based
  national health accounts
• Completing pilot projects
• Decision about implementation in countries
  concerned

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Tasks related to dissemination of SHA results

• Collecting SHA tables on an ongoing basis
• connected to reporting data for Parts 4 and 5 of
  the OECD Health Data (in February/March 2005 )
• to collect SHA tables separately, preferably in
  April/May every year
• Review of the SHA papers
• Providing outline for future country studies

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Issues for discussion

• Results of the project on SHA-based National
  Health Accounts
• Proposals concerning OECD working and technical
  papers
• Proposed content and appearance of the SHA
  Implementation web-page
• Preferred way of regular collection of SHA data
• Member countries plan for their involvement