World in Your Pocket: A Handbook of International Health Economic Statistics

The Institute of Health Economics (IHE) - Alberta Canada - 2007

Available online PDF [60p.] at:
http://www.ihe.ca/documents/ihe/publications/reports/IHE_Report_World_in_Your_Pocket_International_Health_Economic_Statistics_2007.pdf

“…..designed to be an easy and portable international reference guide to indicators of health care and health economics. We define "economic" broadly to include both means (personal and formal resources) and ends (health outcomes).

“….includes the most current available data, presented in separate sections on health status, health care costs, health resources, health resource utilization and health system performance. The basic unit of observation is the individual country. Indicators are reported at the international level.