17th WHO-OECD Annual Meeting of Asia-Pacific Health Accounts Experts, Virtual meeting, 22-23 August 2022: meeting report

Overview

Health accounts are ways for countries to monitor health spending. Understanding health spending allows policy-makers to learn from past expenditures and improve planning and allocation of resources throughout the system, thereby contributing to evidence-based policy-making towards universal health coverage (UHC). As part of the global mandate to report on health expenditures, the World Health Organization (WHO) works with partners such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to support the production and use of health accounts information in countries.

Building upon technical discussions and knowledge exchange from previous meetings, the 17th WHOOECD Annual Meeting of Asia-Pacific Health Accounts Experts was held virtually from 23 to 25 August 2022. Participants from 25 countries and areas in the WHO Western Pacific and South-East Asia regions attended the event. During the meeting, country participants and experts exchanged methodological updates and country experience in tracking health spending related to COVID-19 and PHC.