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SHA Joint QuestionnaireOECD-EUROSTAT-WHO HQ

• C. van Mosseveld
• EUROSTAT, F5

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Background

• Need for data on health care expenditure
• SHA data are important for all three
  organisations
• Co-operation and co-ordination necessary

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Goals

• Reducing the burden for suppliers
• Expand use of manual by users
• One number philosophy
• Every country for all three organisations one set
  of data on health care expenditure
• Increase the possibilities of national and
  international analysis based on identical data

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Requirements

• Completeness and consistency
• Accuracy and timely
• Coherent and comparable (space and time)
• Relevant (valuable and support by users)
• Deviations (from ICHA) need to be transparent

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Process

• Starting point tables based on the
  classifications of the manual
• Compromise to be reached between the 3
  organisations (September 2-3, 2005)
• Feedback from producers of data (TM care (21-22
  Sept) and SHA Expert meeting)
• Final documents in November 2005

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Joint Questionnaire documents

• Package consists of
• Summary of the Practical Working Arrangements
  (OECD,EUROSTAT,WHO)
• Set of tables, cross-tabulating the
  classifications
• Set of methodological questions
• Technical note explaining the structure of
  classifications and tables
• Additional descriptions and definitions used in
  the memorandum items

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Joint Questionnaire tables (1)

• Tables consist of health expenditure core set
• Financing agents / schemes by functions (HFxHC)
• Providers by functions (HPxHC)
• Providers by financing agents / schemes (HPxHF)
• Addtional tables
• Financing agents /schemes by financing sources
  (HFxFS)
• Providers (aggregated) by human resources (HPxRC)

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Joint Questionnaire tables (2)

• Tables are based on the original detailed sets of
  classifications of the manual
• Addtional items in HC
• HC.9 functions not specified in kind or not
  elsewhere mentioned
• HC.R.6.1 health related social care services
  (not HC.3) of LTCare
• Additional item in HP HP.X Providers of HC.R
  goods

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Joint Questionnaire tables (3)

• Additional information
• Providers distinction in public and private
• Initial version of 2 new classification
  structures
• Sources of funding (to be used by financing
  agents / schemes in the process)
• Human resources
• Memorandum items

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Structure of the Joint Questionnaire

• Source of funding

Financing agents / schemes
Functions
Providers of services
Human resources
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Joint Questionnaire methodological notes

• I Data sources
• II Relations between old national HC
  expenditure items and the new SHA-tables
• III Current state of SHA implementation
• Deviations of the national compilation from the
  SHA
• Estimation procedures and adjustments

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Joint Questionnaire Final documents

• Summary of Practical Working Arrangements
• Structure of the classifications
• Additional descriptions and definitions used in
  the joint questionnaire