Dataset

Global Inpatient and Outpatient Health Care Utilization, Unit Costs, and Costs and Services Needed to Achieve Universal Health Coverage 1990-2016

HealthGlobalInstitute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

Dataset Objective

To measure inpatient and outpatient health care utilization and health care economics in 195 countries.

Context

Data covers the period 1990-2016.

What is included

Dataset contains: health care utilization, unit cost of outpatient visits and inpatient admissions, additional health services and funds needed to meet a universal health coverage (UHC) standard for utilization.

Collection Methods

Data is obtained from 1175 country-years of outpatient, 2068 of inpatient data and 795 National Health Accounts (NHAs) were used to produce cost per outpatient visit and inpatient admission estimates for 188 countries.