Feasibility and Challenges of Reporting Factors of Provision in SHA 2011

Overview

In an effort to test the understanding and feasibility of reporting factors of provision for health care providers (FP) under Chapter 9 of A System of Health Accounts 2011, the OECD invited a number of OECD member countries and one non-member country to participate in a study. The call was limited to those countries that had completed parts of the resource cost table currently included in the Joint Health Accounts Questionnaire (JHAQ). In response to a questionnaire and bilateral exchanges, seven countries (the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Portugal and Slovenia) provided feedback on the data sources they would use to report factors of provisions, the elements of the factors of provision table they would be able to identify, and on a variety of methodological issues that need to be addressed when starting to implement the factors of provision table. They also highlighted issues that would be problematic for routine reporting of factors of provision. In addition to the country responses, the OECD Secretariat investigated various national data sources that would allow for reporting of factors of provision.