[EQ] Handbook of International Health Economic Statistics

World in Your Pocket: A Handbook of International Health Economic Statistics

The Institute of Health Economics (IHE) - Alberta Canada - 2007

Available online PDF [60p.] at:
http://www.ihe.ca/documents/ihe/publications/reports/IHE_Report_World_in_Your_Pocket_International_Health_Economic_Statistics_2007.pdf

“…..designed to be an easy and portable international reference guide to indicators of health care and health economics. We define "economic" broadly to include both means (personal and formal resources) and ends (health outcomes).

“….includes the most current available data, presented in separate sections on health status, health care costs, health resources, health resource utilization and health system performance. The basic unit of observation is the individual country. Indicators are reported at the international level.

Table of Contents

Health Status

HALE
Life Expectancy at Birth
Infant Mortality
Population Reporting Good or Better Health
Physical Activity
Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables
Percentage of Population Who Smoke Daily
Prevalence of Obesity

Costs

Health Care Expenditure per Capita
Health Care Expenditure as % of GDP
Pharmaceutical Expenditure
Family Physician Salaries
Specialist Physician Salaries
Per Person Spending by Age
Per Person Spending by Service Catagory and Age
Elderly Dependency Ratio
Cost at End of Life
Total Health Care Cost in Alberta

Health Resources

Number of Physicians
Number of Nurses
Number of Pharmacists
Number of Dentists
Number of CT Imaging Scanners
Number of MRI Imaging Scanners
Number of Hospital Beds

Health Resource Utilization

Average Length of Stay in Hospital
Hospital Discharge Rate

Health System Performance

Unemployment Rate
Public Satisfaction in Health Care
Median Waiting Times
Health Expenditure and Life Expectancy
Health Expenditure and Infant Mortality

QALY League Tables

Cataract Surgery
Organ Transplantation
Hip Replacement
Vaccination

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[EQ] Aid for health: should policy-makers worry about its macroeconomic impact?

Technical briefs for policy-makers

Health Financing Policy - Department of Health Systems Financing
World Health Organization - 2007

Website: http://www.who.int/health_financing/en/

Technical briefs for policy-makers are succinct summaries of key policy issues, explaining what the issue is, why is it important, and how policy-makers can address the issue.

:: Aid for health: should policy-makers worry about its macroeconomic impact? [pdf 266kb]
No.3 – 2007

“…Many developing countries need to substantially increase expenditure if they are to achieve significant improvements in population health, and financial assistance provided by multilateral or bilateral external partners is becoming a major source. However, a large increase in such aid could theoretically lead to increased inflation, problems with the balance of payments and slower growth. This policy brief examines the possible effects of aid flows on the wider economy, and suggests that it is possible to minimize and even eliminate any possible adverse effects. Countries should not, in general, be concerned about accepting more aid for health from this perspective….”

:: Provider payments and cost-containment: lessons from OECD countries [pdf 349kb]
No 2, 2007

“….Historically the OECD countries have struggled to curb their public spending on health care through the use of both demand-oriented and supply side regulations. Empirical evidence suggests that the simultaneous use of different provider payment methods can restrain expenditure on health while maintaining good quality care and fair access to services. Regulatory commitment is necessary to maximize the efficiency of these tools…”

:: Designing health financing systems to reduce catastrophic health expenditure [pdf 245kb]

:: Achieving universal health coverage: developing the health financing system [pdf 337kb]

 
Ole DoetinchemHealth Systems Analyst
Health Financing Policy - Department of Health Systems Financing
World Health Organization

 

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[EQ] Switzerland: Primary care physician supply and other key determinants of health care utilisation

Primary care physician supply and other key determinants of health care utilisation:
The case of Switzerland

Andre Busato Institute for Evaluative Research in Orthopaedic Surgery - University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Beat Kuenzi, Swisspep - Institute for Quality and Research in Healthcare -  Guemligen, Switzerland
BMC Health Services Research – January 2008, 8:8doi:10.1186/1472-6963-8-8

URL: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/8/8

PDF file [28p] at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6963-8-8.pdf

Background
The Swiss government decided to freeze new accreditations for physicians in private practice in Switzerland based on the assumption that demand-induced health care spending may be cut by limiting care offers. This legislation initiated an ongoing controversial public debate in Switzerland. The aim of this study is therefore the determination of socio-demographic and health system-related factors of per capita consultation rates with primary care physicians in the multicultural population of Switzerland..."

Conclusions
The study documents a large small-area variation in utilisation and provision of health care resources in Switzerland. Effects of physician density appeared to be strongly related to Swiss language regions and may be rooted in the different cultural backgrounds of the served populations.

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