Irans National Health Accounts: Years 1971-2001, Analytical Framework and Methodological Issues

Mahmood Kazemian | syed aljunid

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URL :   http://research.shahed.ac.ir/WSR/WebPages/Report/PaperView.aspx?PaperID=137285
Date :  2005/09/07
Publish in :    2nd International Case-Mix Conference 6th-7th September 2005


Keywords :Health Services Classification, Health Expenditure, Social Health Insurance, Health Accounting Regulation

Abstract :

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Irans National Health Accounts, NHA, provides useful information health financing and sources and uses of health expenditure, and on sources of health policies and programs for a long period of 31 years. This information is useful for changes in financial and regulation arrangements and in the social health insurance system in the past. Today after more than two decades of international efforts to standardize definitions and expenditure classifications, the NHA structure of Iran takes into account these features to enable international comparisons. The methods and applications for structuring Irans health expenditure accounts conform to the regular specifications for analyzing the results, concerning economic and social aspects of health systems and the conditions for time series and cross section studies