The System of Health Accounts (SHA) proposes an integrated system of comprehensive and internationally comparable accounts for reporting health expenditure data. In this paper, we analyse key results from the first joint collection of health accounts data by the OECD, Eurostats and WHO which was...

Across the OECD, healthcare spending has typically outpaced economic growth in recent decades. While such spending has improved health outcomes, there are concerns about the financial sustainability of this upward trend, particularly as healthcare systems are predominantly funded from public...

The purpose of the System of Health Accounts Changes in health systems and concomitant health policy questions have been challenging the traditional system of health expenditure statistics over the last couple of decades. What are the major factors accounting for health expenditure growth? What...