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Costing essential health-care packages based on the framework of national floors of social protection.

An innovative ILO approach for countries with limited availability of reliable data

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Obermann, K.; Scheil-Adlung, X.; International Labour Office
International Labour Office
2013
1020-9581
49
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Summary (English)

This report provides concepts and recommendations for a macro approach to assessing the cost of providing essential health care to a population. In contrast to a “bottom-up” calculation that focuses on the cost of individual needs and services of a defined essential health-care benefit, the proposed ILO approach is based on aggregate data that is more easily available and uses indicators for staff, medicines and infrastructure as inputs to a health-care system.

ESS Paper Series (ILO) 15227 health care
04.08.2015