Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2022
Measuring Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage
This seventh 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 territories, and a thematic analysis on the health impact of COVID-19. 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 territories, and over time, brief descriptive analyses highlighting the major findings conveyed by the data, and a methodological box on the definition of the indicators and any limitations in data comparability. An annex provides additional information on the demographic and economic context in which health systems operate.
Health expenditure by type of service
Factors such as how care is organised and prioritised across providers, what the population needs are, and the various input costs, all affect how health spending is distributed across different services. Curative and rehabilitative care services comprise the greatest share – typically accounting for around 64% of all health spending across Asia-Pacific reporting countries (). Medical goods (mostly retail pharmaceuticals) take up a further 15%, followed by a growing share on preventive care, which in 2019 averaged around 8% of health spending. Administration and overall governance of the health system, together with ancillary services and long-term care covered the remainder. Across OECD countries, long-term care and medical goods accounted for a higher share of health care spending as compared to Asia-Pacific reporting countries.
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