Meeting of Experts in National Health Accounts - Agenda - Paris, 27-28 October 2003

1. Opening Remarks

2. Adoption of Agenda

3. Approval of the Summary Record of the 6th Meeting of Health Accounts Experts and Correspondents for Health Expenditure Data

4. The State and Future Tasks of Harmonisation of Data Reporting to OECD Health Data Including Developments in SHA-based National Health Accounts

Presentation by the Secretariat on the current state and future tasks of harmonisation of data reporting to OECD Health Data with the SHA-ICHA.

5. Information on International Activities in Health Accounting Since the Last Experts’ Meeting

• Overview of current EU sponsored SHA related projects. Presentation by Eurostat.
• Presentation of the WHO/World Bank/USAID on the publication: Guide to producing national health accounts with special applications to low-income and middle-income countries.
• Presentations by representatives of regional NHA Networks on recent developments in their regions
• Information about The 3rd Global Symposium on National Health Accounts, San Francisco, June 13-14.

6. Estimating Expenditure on Long-term Care (LTC)

Presentation by the Secretariat on guidelines for estimating expenditure on services for long-term nursing care (HC.3) and results from the data collection for the study on long-term care under the OECD Health Project.

7. Basic Concepts for Price and Output Measurement in Health

Presentation by Ann Lisbet Brathaug (Norway) on the basic concepts for price and output measurement in health

8. Current Revision Round of the ISIC

Oral Presentation by the Secretariat on the OECD’s activities regarding health industries in support of the current revision of the ISIC.

9. Key Results of Recent SHA Implementations

Presentations of country cases: Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Sweden, Turkey and UK

10. A Framework for Comparative Analysis of SHA-Based National Health Accounts

Presentation of an interim report by the Secretariat on developing a Framework for Comparative Analysis of SHA-based National Health Accounts

11. Discussion of Country Chapters of the Working Paper on "SHA-based National Health Accounts in OECD Countries"

Presentation and discussion of key issues in the country chapters of the SHA Working Paper: Canada, Denmark, Germany.

12. Discussion of Country Chapters of the Working Paper on "SHA-Based National Health Accounts in OECD Countries" (Continued)

Presentation and discussion of key issues in the country chapters of the SHA Working
Paper: Hungary, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Switzerland.

13. Conclusions and Discussion of the Next Steps

14. Other Business