Know Health accounts

Health accounts are a way for countries to monitor health spending across multiple streams, regardless of the entity or institution that financed and managed that spending. They allow health administrators to learn from past expenditure and improve planning and allocation of resources throughout the system, thereby increasing efficiency and accountability. The system generates consistent and comprehensive data on health spending in a country, which in turn can contribute to evidence-based policy making. Within this system, countries can track changes in policy priorities and understand if the introduction of reforms and new programs resulted in changes in health resources allocation and expenditure.

Understanding the details of health spending is essential and allows countries to improve their systems, ultimately to make them fairer and better serve the people. Health accounts help to protect people from catastrophic health bills and reduce inequalities in health. They are seen as an essential step in creating a universal health coverage system