Recommendations for Preparing Policy Briefs based on the System of Health Accounts (SHA 2011)

Abstract

Monitoring the use and allocation of financial resources ensures they are consistent with policies to improve the equity and efficiency of the health system, while ensuring the long-term sustainability of funding. Health accounts not only show what is going right, they also show gaps and opportunities for improvement in the allocation of resources. However, information must be available in order to be relevant, making the preparation of policy briefs the culmination of the annual process of generating health accounts. This publication offers recommendations to help ensure that policy briefs based on health accounts meet their objective of facilitating a contextualized discussion that can lead to proposals for interventions that translate into more and better health services tailored to people’s needs.