Meeting of Experts in National Health Accounts - Agenda - Paris, 30 September - 1 October 2004

1. Opening Remarks

2. Adoption of Agenda

3. Approval of the Summary Record

4. Future Work at the OECD on Health

Oral report on the Secretariat plans for future work on health data and health accounts.

5. OECD Publications on "SHA-based national health accounts"

• Feedback on the Working Paper on "SHA-Based National Health Accounts", published August 2004
• Presentation by the Secretariat on the project plan for producing the second issue of "SHA-based National Health Accounts" to be published in 2006. [DELSA/ELSA/WP1/HS(2004)5 - pdf, 384 kb]

6. Refinement of Health Expenditure Classifications (ICHA)

• Presentation by the Secretariat on a project plan for developing ICHA Version 1.1. [DELSA/ELSA/WP1/HS(2004)6 - pdf, 58 kb]

7. Measurement of Government Outputs and Productivity in the Health Sector in the United Kingdom

• Presentation by Philip Lee, member of the core team of the "Atkinson Review" aimed at revising measurement methods of general government output and productivity

8. Current Revision Round of the ISIC

• Presentation by the Secretariat on the OECD’s activities regarding health industries as part of the current revision of the ISIC. [DELSA/ELSA/WP1/HS(2004)7]

9. Health Expenditure and Financing (Parts 4 & 5 in OECD Health Data 2005)

• Preliminary proposals by the Secretariat for improvements in availability and comparability in Parts 4 & 5 of OECD Health Data [Presentation, DELSA/ELSA/WP1/HS(2004)8]

10. Parts 4 & 5 in Health at a Glance

• Presentation by the Secretariat on data requirements for health expenditure in Health at a Glance 2005 [DELSA/ELSA/WP1/HS(2004)1]

11. Estimating Expenditure on Long-Term Care (LTC)

• Introduction by the Secretariat: relation of the topic to the work on refinement of the ICHA and SHA data collection.
• Presentation by the Secretariat on progress with estimating expenditure on long-term care services from the data collection for the study on long-term care under the OECD Health Project. Proposal for follow-up work [DELSA/ELSA/WP1/HS(2004)9] - pdf, 206 kb]

12. Information on International Activities in Health Accounting since the last Experts' Meeting

• Overview of current EU-sponsored SHA-related projects
• Presentation by Eurostat
• Presentation by WHO
• Presentation by World Bank.
• Presentations by representatives of regional NHA Networks on recent developments in their regions

13. Key Results of Recent SHA Implementations

Presentation and discussion of experience of countries that have implemented SHA since the last experts meeting. (Portugal)

14. Other Business