Status of Health Accounts in Asia-Pacific Region 2005 Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya Institute for Health Policy, Asia-Pacific NHA Network Meeting of Health Accounts Experts OECD Paris, France September 30, 2005

Developments in 2004/2005 Continued adoption of SHA as basis for HAs –Finalisation of first SHA estimates in Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Hong Kong SAR –Release of second round SHA results in some countries Completion of EU-funded equity analysis of health systems linked to SHA – Regional meeting of health accounts experts in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 2005 Continued discussion of mechanisms for regional compilation of health accounts data

SHA Status in Asia-Pacific 2005

Availability of NHE estimates

Agenda for 2006 Publication comparing first phase SHA results in 12 countries Continued collaboration on adoption of SHA Harmonization of methods and results –Documentation of methods –Technical collaboration to improve methods Routine compilation of health accounts estimates –Possible parallel effort to OECD-Eurostat-WHO activity in collaboration with other partners