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The WHO regional health economics and health care financing programme focuses on these areas of work with countries:

System of Health Accounts 2011

United Nation's OneHealth Costing Tool

OASIS: Organizational Assessment for Improving and Strengthening Health Financing

Provider payment mechanisms

Costing

Social health insurance

Household health expenditure and utilization surveys

Equity analysis

Health care financing policy dialogue

Mapping social health protection.

Featured publications

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Information resources

National health accounts

Statistics and figures

Total health expenditure in 2008:

Globally: US$ 5800 billion

Eastern Mediterranean Region: US$ 92 billion.

The Region accounts for 1.6% of total global spending for 8% of the world's population.

For more details, please visit the Regional Health Observatory web page.

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