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Indicator name:
Domestic private health expenditure (PVT-D) per capita in US$
Short name:
PVT-D_pc_US$
Indicator Id:
4961
Topic:
Current health expenditure by financing sources
Rationale:
This indicator calculates the current health expenditure from private domestic sources spent per person in USD currency. Private domestic sources include domestic revenues from households, corporations and non-profit organizations. Such expenditures can be either prepaid (such as compulsory and voluntary prepayments to private insurance) or paid directly out-of-pocket by households to health care providers. This indicator describes the size of the private domestic health expenditure in relation to the population size facilitating international comparison.
Definition:
Per capita domestic private current health expenditure expressed in respective currency - USD
Method of measurement
(FS.4 Compulsory prepayment (other than FS.3) + FS.5 Voluntary prepayment + FS.6 Other domestic revenues n.e.c. + FS.nec Unspecified revenues of health care financing schemes n.e.c.) / Population
Method of estimation:
-
Method of estimation of global and regional aggregates:
Unweighted average (mean) of the indicator value across countries with available data.
Unit of Measure:
USD
Comments:
The codes of health expenditure for method of measurement correspond to categories of the International Classification of Health Accounts (ICHA-SHA2011). The complete list of ICHA codes is available in the SHA 2011 document: A system of health accounts 2011 and in the Excel file: International classification of health accounts (SHA 2011 series) . (See links below)
Contact person email:
nha@who.int
Name:
Health accounts team
Links:
Global health expenditures database
International standard methodology (a system of health accounts SHA 2011)
International classification of health accounts (SHA 2011 series) codes and names
Indicator Metadata Registry List
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