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Room: Congress Hall A
Time: Fri 10:15 AM-11:30 AM

Improving Health Expenditure Data as an Objective and a Policy Tool

Chair: Claudia Geue

Session Description

In the recent years the effort to shift towards evidence based policy has triggered big international effort to improve data collection and provide good quality, internationally comparable data. One of the efforts in this direction has been the development of a System of Health Accounts as an international standard. Still a lot of discrepancies exist in the understanding of the health expenditure categories and in the methods for collecting data. The aim of this session is to present the results from a WHO project supporting the improvement of data collection in the countries from the former Soviet Union and introduction of international standards. The series of studies represented here look at the differences which countries face in adopting comprehensive methods and unifying data collection. The papers compare the experience of the health expenditure experts from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan in reporting and interpreting different categories and more specifically out-of-pocket payments and tracking of external funding. The studies give an inside in the differences in existing data.

Improvement of data has given policy makers the opportunity to gain better understanding of the existing problems in their health care systems and reshape their policies. Therefore, the session will also provide examples from Georgia and Tajikistan of how data improvement can affect policy making.

Session Organizer: Nora Markova (WHO)

Presentations

1. Tracking external resources for health care in the countries from the former Soviet Union: methods and definitions

   Presenter: Adyljan Temirov (Health Policy Analysis Center, Kyrgyzstan)

2. Comparative analysis of health expenditure patterns in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia

   Presenter: Baktygul Akkazieva (Health Policy Analysis Center, Kyrgyzstan )

3. Assessing the impact of the Tajik Guaranteed Basic Package Scheme on patients’ expenditure in PHC and hospital settings

   Presenter: Benoit Mathivet (WHO/Ministry of Health, Tajikistan)

4. Impact of NHA Findings on Health Policies in Georgia

   Presenter: Sofia Lebanidze (Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia)

5. Reporting out-of-pocket payments for health care in countries from the former Soviet Union: Methods and definitions

   Presenter: Nora Markova (WHO Europe)