Health expenditure, 2003-2005

This 'Data in Focus' provides the first results of a joint EUROSTAT/OECD/WHO questionnaire on current health expenditure for the years 2003-2005. The data are presented according to the main distinctions of the three core classifications used in the System of Health Accounts, that is to say who pays (financing agents), for which goods and services (functions of health) and who produces these services (providers). Non-EU countries covered include Japan, Norway, Switzerland and the United States.