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National Health Accounts (NHA) is tool specifically
designed for policy makers and managers of the health care sector. It is
designed to help them in their efforts to improve health systems performance
and make evidence-based policy making by providing useful information about
the use of financial resources.
NHA can demonstrate how a country's health resources
are spent, on what services, and who pays for them. They are a set of
accounts that describe all expenditure flows within the health sector, both
governmental and non-governmental. In short, they describe; where does the
money come from? (sources of funding) and where does the money go? (uses of
funds). If undertaken regularly, NHA reveals trends in health expenditure
over time, an essential element in health system monitoring and evaluation.
NHA methodology can be used to make financial projections of a country’s
health system requirements and compare their own experiences with those of
other countries.
The National Health Policy 2002 had emphasized the
need to establish a National Health Accounts (NHA) system in India
by the year 2005. Against this backdrop, the NHA Cell was setup in the
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India in the end of July
2003. A Steering Committee has been constituted by the Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare to guide the NHA Cell in taking decisions on various issues,
which would emanate as a result of taking this initiative forward in the
Indian context.
The NHA cell in the MOHFW has been conducting and
commissioning studies to compile and develop the estimates. Presently it has
brought out the NHA estimates for the years 2001-02, 2004-05 with provisional
estimates up to 2008-09.
The NHA cell further provides inputs to states in
terms of capacity building for development of state health accounts. In this
regard a manual has been brought out.
 Reports
Manual
Workshops
 Capacity
Building
 Workshop on NHA in India:
the way forward from 31 Oct to 1 Nov 2002
Workshop on Capacity
Building on NHA from 8-12 Sep 2003
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