Chapter 14: National Health Accounts of the Philippines Flashcards
This refers to all types of health services whose benefits accrue directly and exclusively to the person using the particular health services.
Personal Health Care
This refers to all types of services intended to benefit everyone in the community regardless of whether or not they consciously seek or avail of the services .
Public Health Care
It includes administrative expenses incurred in the production and delivery of health care to the end users, cost of training health providers, and other indirect costs.
Other Cost
This is the primary measurement tool of health care spending.
Health account
It is a set of statistics that systematically presents health care spending or simply the framework for the compilation of information on the country’s health expenditures for one calendar year.
Health Account
Health accounts are categorized into
National Health Accounts - which cover the entire country
Local Accounts - which cover a subset of the country
Health Accounts provide the following information:
1) How much is being spent on health care in a given year
2) Who were the major sources of funds
3) Who pays for health care and what health care goods and services were purchased
4) What Health care services are being provided.
The amount spent on health per person or the per capita amount of the sum of public expenditure on health and private health expenditure.
Per Capita Health Expenditure
The per capita amount of the sum of outlays on health paid for by taxes, social security contributions, and external resources.
Public Health Expenditure (PHE) per capita
Comprises the direct outlays earmarked for the enhancement of the health status of the population and or the distribution of medical care goods and services among population.
National Government Spending
The sum of expenditure on health paid by government entities such as the DOH, other agencies, social security agencies.
General Government Expenditure on Health
Comprises the outlays of insurers and third party payers other than social security, mandated employer health services and other enterprise-provided health services, non-profit institutions and non-governmental organizations financing health care, private investments in medical care facilities, and household out-of-pocket spending.
Private Expenditure on Health
