From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">WHO Global Health Expenditure Atlas <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">World Health
Organization WHO – 2012<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Available online PDF file - 6.56MB [224p.]
at:</span></font> <font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://bit.ly/TqnDBt" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">http://bit.ly/TqnDBt</span></font></a> <br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">“….The global health
expenditure database that WHO has maintained for the past ten years, provides
internationally comparable numbers on national health expenditures. WHO updates
the data annually, taking, adjusting and estimating the numbers based on
publicly available reports (national health account reports, reports from the
Ministry of Finance, Central Bank, National Statistics Offices, public
expenditure information and reports from the World Bank, the International
Monetary Fund, etc). <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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The estimates are sent out to the Ministries of Health for validation prior to
publication but users are advised that country data may still differ in terms
of definitions, data collection methods, population coverage and estimation
methods used This database is the source for the health expenditure tables in
the World Health Statistics Report and the WHO Global Health Observatory….”<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Contents<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Foreword <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Factsheet <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Policy highlights <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Health expenditures and universal
coverage <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Country profile by region 2010<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">WHO African Region <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">WHO Region of the <u></u><u></u>Americas<u></u><u></u> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">WHO South-<u></u>East
 Asia<u></u> Region <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">WHO European Region <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">WHO <u></u>Eastern
 Mediterranean<u></u> Region <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">WHO Western Pacific Region <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">World Health Statistics 2012 tables <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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