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Eurostat activities in the area of Health Accounting

Eurostat activities in the area of Health Accounting. What we do…. In 2005, Eurostat will start to collect routine data on health expenditures . Eurostat will only accept health expenditure data compliant to the SHA framework . Countries are invited to provide data from 2000 onward .

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Eurostat activities in the area of Health Accounting

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  1. Eurostat activities in the area ofHealth Accounting

  2. What we do… • In 2005, Eurostat will start to collect routine data on health expenditures. • Eurostat will only accept health expenditure data compliant to the SHA framework. Countries are invited to provide data from 2000 onward. • Eurostat has been supporting MS to implement SHA since 2000. This will continue. • Eurostat will make all health care statistics SHA compliant continuously in the years to come.

  3. What we know so far… • The information needs at EU level are constantly growing, due to initiatives from the Commission and from the Council. • Providing health care statistics in a consistent way, yielding non-contradictory data, cannot be easily accomplished in MS. • MS may approve efforts for mapping national data into comparable international ones, using common strategies.

  4. … what we learnt recently… • Eurostat sponsors a project on “Developing a minimum data set (MDS) for SHA data.” • This project analyzes the known information needs, the suggested indicator sets, and the built-in links between different SHA variables. • The MDS final report should state: • which variables to include at which granularity, • which structures/concepts to use for data transfer, • which tools to use for guaranteeing data consistency.

  5. … and what this may lead to • Recently, the contractor discussed with country representatives first ideas on a SHA-MDS. • Participants agreed in principle that such a MDS was needed. • Before further decisions can be taken, the project report must provide a complete analysis. • Eurostat will then negotiate with the MS, how an agreed SHA-MDS can be implemented, and in which way IT can be integrated in a useful way.

  6. Summary • SHA is a too complex subject with too many nested variables as that the data collection could forever be organized via Excel tables. • So far, first ideas for a better strategy have been presented. No decisions have been taken yet. • More work is needed before MS can evaluate. • All activities aim at supporting MS. Implementing requires consent. We keep you all updated and will invite you to comment before EU decides.

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