Producing national health accounts To be successful in producing
reliable and valid results the NHA project requires resources. A
NHA team of people with the skills and aptitudes necessary for
the task needs to be assembled. This technically oriented NHA
team should be overseen by a more policy-oriented steering
committee. The production of NHA is a process of collecting and
organizing the data, analyzing the results for health policy,
and disseminating the information to the stakeholders. The Guide
to producing national health accounts – with special
applications for low-income and middle-income countries adapts
the international classification of Health Accounts (ICHA)
published in “A System of Health Accounts” (SHA) by the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
but provides flexibility to include classifications suited to
low and middle-income countries*. This guide goes through the
process of acquiring and evaluating data and provides step-by-
step examples of how to turn raw data in