Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2018
Measuring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage
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This fifth edition of Health at a Glance Asia/Pacific presents a set of key indicators of health status, the determinants of health, health care resources and utilisation, health care expenditure and financing and quality of care across 27 Asia-Pacific countries and territories. It also provides a series of dashboards to compare performance across countries, and a thematic analysis on health inequalities. Drawing on a wide range of data sources, it builds on the format used in previous editions of Health at a Glance, and gives readers a better understanding of the factors that affect the health of populations and the performance of health systems in these countries and territories. Each of the indicators is presented in a user-friendly format, consisting of charts illustrating variations across countries and over time, brief descriptive analyses highlighting the major findings conveyed by the data, and a methodological box on the definition of the indicator and any limitations in data comparability. An annex provides additional information on the demographic context in which health systems operate.
Also available in: Korean
Health expenditure per capita and in relation to GDP
Much variation in per capita health care spending levels can be observed in Asia-Pacific countries and territories in 2015 (), ranging from Bangladesh health spending per capita of only 88 international dollars (USD PPP) to Australia’s 4 491 international dollars (USD PPP). The average OECD current health spending per capita in 2015 was around twenty times that of the low-income countries and territories in Asia-Pacific (3 800 versus USD PPP 193). The higher the income level of a country the higher the share of health spending per capita funded by government/compulsory sources in Asia-Pacific: 71.6% in high-income countries versus 36.8% in low and lower-middle income countries.
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