Lazenby H C, Levit K R, Waldo D R, Adler G S, Letsch S W, Cowan C A
Health Care Financing Administration, Baltimore, MD 21207.
Health Care Financ Rev. 1992 Summer;13(4):89-103.
The national health accounts (NHA) are the framework within which type of services and sources of funding for health care expenditures are measured. NHA, devised to portray the structure of health care delivery and financing in the United States, provide essential information necessary for the formulation of public health policy and for international comparison. In this article, the authors describe the importance of the NHA nationally and internationally, and provide a blueprint of the definitions, sources, and methods used to create this system of NHA in the United States.
国民健康账户(NHA)是一个用于衡量医疗保健支出的服务类型和资金来源的框架。NHA旨在描绘美国医疗保健服务与融资体系结构,为制定公共卫生政策和进行国际比较提供必要的关键信息。在本文中,作者阐述了NHA在国内和国际上的重要性,并给出了美国创建这一NHA体系所使用的定义、数据来源和方法的蓝图。