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Indicator name:
Out-of-pocket expenditure as percentage of current health expenditure (CHE) (%)
Short name:
OOP%CHE
Data type:
Percent
Indicator Id:
4965
Topic:
Current health expenditure by financing sources
Rationale:
The share of revenues from out-of-pocket payments as percentage of current health expenditure indicates how much is funded directly by households out-of-pocket expenditure on health. High out-of-pocket payments are associated with catastrophic and impoverishing household spending. Out of pocket payments are not pooled and there is no sharing of risk among wider group of people other than the household. This indicator describes the role of household out-of-pocket payments in funding healthcare relative to government, external or other private domestic sources.
Definition:
Share of current health expenditure funded from household out-of-pocket payments
Method of measurement
Other revenues from households n.e.c. (FS.6.1) / Current health expenditure (CHE)
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:
%
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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