Abstract:

Starting from the Satellite Accounts System for Romania, other types of satellite health accounts may be developed, involving a rearrangement of the central classifications and a possible introduction of complementary elements. Health expenditures on different types of services, different types of health care providers, and  according to financing source could be analysed on sex and age groups. Age groups derive from the differentiation of the health services provided in the Romanian hospitals (0-1 years, newborns; 1-18 years, children; 18-65 years, adults; 65+, aged and old people). Health expenditures could be also analyzed relatively to the development regions of Romania. All these models of satellite health accounts that I suggest need highly specific and complex data for compilation, which can be achieved by specialized institutions such as the National Statistics Institute (and its branches) and other authorized institutions that have access to, and use on a regular basis the necessary data. Statistic data have not yet been published for such satellite account models.