Total-Health-spending-perperson - Health Quality Ontario (HQO)

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INDICATOR NAME

Name

Total health spending per person

Alternate Name

Total health spending in dollars per person

INDICATOR DESCRIPTION

Description

This indicator measures total spending on health care in dollars per person in a given period of time.

HQO Reporting tool/product

Public reporting

Dimension

Effective

Type

Process

DEFINITION AND SOURCE INFORMATION

Unit of Measurement

Dollars per person

Calculation Methods

Numerator divided by denominator.

Numerator (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)

Total spending on health care in dollars in a given period of time.

Denominator (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)

The most recent revised population estimates from the Demography Division of Statistics Canada.

Adjustment (risk, age/sex standardization)- generalized

Risk adjusted

Data Source

National Health Expenditure Database (NHEX), OECD Health Statistics

Data provided to HQO by

Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

Reported Levels of comparability /stratifications (defined)

International comparison, Province, Time

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

Caveats and Limitations

OECD member countries are asked to report health spending according to concepts presented in the OECD manual "A System of Health Accounts (SHA)". Countries are at varying stages of reporting total health spending according to the boundary of health care proposed in the SHA manual. That means data presented in OECD Health Statistics 2020 is at the varying levels of comparability. This indicator most closely follows the health care boundaries proposed in the SHA and is believed to be fairly comparable, although some deviations from SHA definitions may still exist among sub-categories.

Comments Summary

The data are obtained from National Health Expenditure Database (NHEX) or OECD database i.e. they are not calculated by HQO.