National health accounts

Glossary of terms and financing flows

Glossary of concepts and definitions referred to in the WHO expenditure on health indicators.

Financing flows in health systems: NHA representation.
Financing flow chart

Acronyms used in the country data-templates.

New

Global health expenditure database
NHA Policy highlights
Illustration of NHA information for policy formulation in countries

News

WHO Global health expenditure atlas
pdf, 6.96Mb

The first meeting of the Technical Advisory Group for the Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED TAG) was held in Geneva (March 27 – 29, 2012).

Guide to producing child health subaccounts
pdf, 918kb

System of Health Accounts 2011 (SHA 2011)

The process started in 2006 and is now complete. A final version of the new manual - SHA 2011 - can be found at...
pdf, 24kb

Key documents

Producers' Guide (English)
pdf, 2.01Mb

This Guide is now available in Arabic, French and Spanish also and in draft form in Chinese and Russian .

Guide to producing Reproductive health subaccounts