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Methodological datasheet: Total health spending as a percentage of GDP
Identification
- Description.
- Total health spending as a percentage of GDP
- Description and source 1 operation code.
- Health account. (170118 Basque Statistics Plan)
- Description and source 2 operation code.
- Economic accounts 170112
- Responsable entity.
- Eustat
- Availability.
- Year + 2
- Indicator formula.
- Total health expenditure / GDP x 100
Objectives
It is an indicator of expenditure, which shows what proportion of a country's wealth (GDP) is spent on health, i.e. the total public and private spending on curative, rehabilitative and preventative health care services as well as on pharmaceutical products, in addition to the investment made by provider industries of these services and products.
Sphere
- Population:
Resident public or private units that spend on medical goods and services
- Geographical Sphere:
Basque Country
- Time period:
-
Biennial
Concepts and Definitions
The indicator is obtained as a quotient, out of a hundred:
Numerator:
Total health current expenditure: the total public and private spending on curative, rehabilitative and preventative health care services as well as on pharmaceutical products, in accordance with the SHA 1.0 (System of Health Accounts) methodology of the OECD.
Denominator:
GDP (Gross Domestic Product) x 100,000.
Codes and nomenclatures
Not applicable
Quality
The sources used by each country available at:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/hlth_sha11_esms.htm
Further Information
The EUROSTAT data are available in the Population and social conditions folder Health> Health care> Health care expenditure> Health care expenditure (SHA 1.0) (2003-2012)> Health care expenditure > Expenditure of selected health care functions by financing agents in health care (%)>
