Result on China National Health Accounts of Year 2005 and Analysis of Essential Health Care Financing

This article introduces the result on National Health Accounts(NHA) of year 2005. The result showed that the Total Expenditure on Health of year 2005 increased slowly, the proportion of government health expenditure kept some growth in the stability, the share of social health expenditure remained sustainable growth and the proportion of out-of-pocket payments kept the decreasing tendency in the recent years. This article also introduces the boundary of China and international National Health Accounts, issues should be considered in international comparison, and provides China NHA result in terms of international boundary. Finally the article discusses the financing scheme and model of essential health care, and suggests that China essential health care financing should be predominantly tax funded and Essential Health Care Scheme should be built based on exiting health system.