Invest in health: ECA trains four countries to make the economic case for health spending
The UN Economic Commission for Africa is training delegates from four African nations to reframe health spending as an economic investment rather than a social cost. The workshop focuses on using Social Accounting Matrices to integrate health data into national economic accounts.
Why it matters
Shifting the perception of health spending can help developing nations secure better financing and prioritize public health infrastructure in national budgets.
THE African Center of Statistics (ACS) at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) this week opened a five-day workshop for delegates from Botswana, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, and Togo, aimed at giving health ministries and statistical offices the tools to show, in economic terms, that health spending is an investment, not a cost.
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