* CONTENTS

1. Introduction 2. Health Financing 3. NHA 1994-2005 4. Summaries of Health Expenditure 5. Conclusions

* SUMMARY

This report provides a systematic analysis of national health expenditure of Thailand from 1994 to 2005, which is classified by types of financing sources, health care functions and health care providers following the OECD System of Health Accounts (OECD SHA). Results of the analysis came from research activities of the fourth phase of the Thai National Health Accounts. Fourteen sources of finance were aggregated into 3 main categories, namely government, non-government sources, and rest of the world. Government health expenditure was collected from involving government organizations and institutes. Nongovernment health expenditure was consisted of many sectors but mainly from household out-of-pocket payments and private health insurance. An estimate of household out-of-pocket payments was imputed by using secondary data of the nationally representative household Socio Economic Survey (SES) conducted by the National Statistical Office of Thailand (NSO). Health expenditure by the rest of the world (ROW) was collected from Thailand International Development Cooperation Agency (TICA) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...