National Health Accounts Symposium
Aug 10 2007
The Fifth Global National Health Accounts Symposium was recently held in Lund, Sweden July 6 - 7, 2007, which was jointly sponsored by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) through the Institute for Health Economics (IHE) as well as HS 20/20.
During the two-day event (attended by approximately 150 participants), donors, development partners, and country representatives presented on a wide range of topics related to NHA, including revising the System of Health Accounts (SHA), policy use of expenditure data, the role of regional NHA networks, and the relationship of health accounts to other resource tracking tools such as public expenditure reviews (PER). HS 20/20 coordinated a panel on institutionalization of NHA, which included presentations from Canada, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and Yemen. For more on NHA and the Symposium, please visit the Swedish Institute for Health Economics web site at www.ihe.se/NHA.
