Health financing and social protection
Consultation on Support for the Development of National Health Accounts in the Pacific, 1-3 September 2009, Nadi, Fiji
The Consultation on Support for the Development of National Health Accounts in the Pacific was conducted in Nadi, Fiji from 1 to 3 September 2009, as part of a joint project of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The joint project, Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy-Making in the Pacific: Support for the Development of National Health Accounts, is being implemented from April 2009 to June 2010. The consultation was attended by 22 participants from 12 Pacific island countries, together with a WHO health financing expert and the ADB-WHO Pacific National Health Accounts Project Coordinator. Observers from ADB and the Asia-Pacific National Health Accounts Network (APNHAN) participated and contributed to the discussions.
The objectives of the consultation were:
(1) to take stock of available resources that support current national health account (NHA) work in the Pacific;
(2) to identify and agree on the additional NHA materials and other tools to be developed for the Pacific; and
(3) to explore the feasibility of establishing an NHA subnetwork for the Pacific.
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