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

General Info

Provider 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Geography 
Global
Coverage type 
Global
Time period covered 
January, 1990 - December, 2016
Data type
Estimate: Inpatient - Outpatient
Summary 

As part of a study to inform plans to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), IHME research generated estimates on utilization and unit cost of outpatient visits and inpatient admissions, and estimated the additional services and funds needed to meet a UHC standard for utilization. Using 1175 country-years of outpatient and 2068 of inpatient data, utilization per person estimates were produced for outpatient visits and inpatient admissions by age and sex for 195 countries and territories for 1990-2016. Data from 795 National Health Accounts (NHAs) were used to produce cost per outpatient visit and inpatient admission estimates for 188 countries for 1995-2016. UHC standards of utilization per disability-adjusted-life-year (DALY) based on existing health systems were created to estimate the additional services and funding needed annually to expand health coverage for countries in 2016. Results of the study were published in The Lancet in December 2018.

Keywords 
Health care access, Health care costs, Health care economics, Health care use

Citation

Contributors 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Funders 
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
Publisher 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Publication year 
2018
Suggested citation 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Global Inpatient and Outpatient Health Care Utilization, Unit Costs, and Costs and Services Needed to Achieve Universal Health Coverage 1990-2016. Seattle, United States of America: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), 2018.

Files (6)

Public files 
FileSize
Binary Data Healthcare Utilization (Inpatient and Outpatient) Estimates and Codebook [CSV]11.06 MB
Binary Data Healthcare Utilization (Inpatient and Outpatient) Decomposition Estimates and Codebook [CSV]14.59 KB
Binary Data Unit cost (Inpatient and Outpatient) Estimates, NHA Data, and Codebooks [CSV]172.69 KB
Binary Data UHC Costs and Services Estimates, Counterfactual DALYs, and Codebooks [CSV]238.11 KB
Binary Data Code Files Used to Produce Estimates [Python, R]144.57 KB
Binary Data Data Release Information Sheet738.18 KB

Source URL:https://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/ihme-data/UHC-cost-and-services-2016