Strengthen the timeliness of expenditure information by reporting to the international aid transparency initiative.
This is one of the few surveys with detailed expenditure information for a panel of households.
The MSMA uses the energy expenditure information of all nodes for different sink-site combinations.
In addition to the medical and non-medical expenditure, information was also available on the household's socio-economic and demographic characteristics.
Furthermore, we extended the analysis to include inpatient expenditure information for outpatient ED high utilizers and measures of social determinants of health in this population.
It is interesting, however, to look at approximate calculations8 based on the program specific expenditure information drawn from the Eurostat Database.
To increase reliability we only included countries that provided expenditures on at least two types of programs, and averaged expenditure information available between 2010 and 2013 whenever possible, otherwise the latest information available was used.
8 According to the share of young participants in the respective program types, total expenditure information for youths were calculated for each country and program-type assuming that the program cost for youth and adult participants are similar.
The survey (see Additional file 1) began with a landing page including a brief definition of SECaaS, the purpose of the study and its target population, the estimated time expenditure, information about incentives, the privacy policy, and contacts.
Neither previous rounds nor the latest (71st) Round of NSS has collected the expenditure information in disaggregated components (doctor's fee, medicine cost, transport cost and other related expenditure) for all three maternal health care components (ANCs, Delivery care, and PNCs).
