Getting the Price Tag of the COVID Crisis: Measuring Health Expenditures in a Pandemic Based on the System of Health Accounts Framework

• Main Authors: Poquiz, John Lourenze, Saroca, Maegan S.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2021
• Subjects: System of Health Accounts; National Health Accounts; health expenditures; COVID-19; pandemic; Health and Physical Education; Public Health
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/res_aki/24; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=res_aki
• Institution: De La Salle University

The COVID-19 pandemic forced many (if not all) countries to resort to extreme interventions to manage the spread of the Corona virus. However, most of these spending are not explicitly considered as health expenditures in typical National Health Accounts (NHA) estimates. As such, estimating health s...