What are national health accounts (NHA)? NHA is a tool designed
to assist policy-makers in their efforts to understand their
health systems and to improve health system performance. NHA
constitute a systematic, comprehensive and consistent monitoring
of resource flows in a country’s health system for a given
period and reflect the main functions of health care financing:
resource mobilization & allocation, pooling and insurance,
purchasing of care and the distribution of benefits. They
address a basic set of questions: - Where do the resources come
from? - Where do the resources go? - What kinds of services and
goods do they purchase? - Who provides what services? - What
inputs are used for providing services? - Whom do they benefit?