Tracking Household Health Expenditures in Developing Countries through Major Population-based Surveys
The purpose of this document is to present possible health expenditure questions (with a focus on out-of-pocket spending) that can be incorporated into major routine household surveys in order to regularly inform health policy tools, such as National Health Accounts, in developing countries. This document proposes health expenditure modules for: the AIDS Indicator Survey (AIS); the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS); the Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS); the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS); and the World Health Survey (WHS). It is hoped that country stakeholders (both public and donor) and resource tracking teams will use this document as a platform for negotiations to include much-needed health expenditure questions into these major population based surveys.
