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Re: Town HaLL Meetings
by smallpoxgirl » Fri 04 Sep 2009, 15:15:56
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'e')eh.. no, not really. First, those figures are in "international" dollars, which basically means how much those drugs bought in Georgia would cost if they were bought in USA or something like that
Not quite. The PPP international dollar thing is about trying to correlate the purchasing power of various currencies which doesn't always equate to exchange rates. They're more interested in trying to figure out how many lari's for a liter of vodka and how many dollars for the same bottle. That sort of thing.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')econd, I sincerely doubt that WHO officers were hiding in the trees with spyglasses and watching how much each doctor gets under the table over there; most likely is that some clerk maintaining the WHO website just divided funding of health care ministry on total population and multiplied it by that magic PPP coefficient.
Again. no. More detailed statistics available here: link
2006 Georgia statistics:
Government expenditure on health as a percentage of total national expenditure on health: 21.5%
Per capita government expenditure on health: $76 (ppp intl)
Per capita total expenditure on health: $355 (ppp intl)
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')s for longetivity, my stats are from CIA's factbook, they do seem to be more diligent with updates and stuff.
The stats you quoted are official government statistics which are likely quite inaccurate for reasons explained on the WHO site. Most particularly there has been a huge influx of refugees who are unregistered, 1/5 of the country is outside control of the government, and the government charges a tax to record vital statistics so many births and deaths aren't recorded.
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Re: Town HaLL Meetings
by Pretorian » Sat 05 Sep 2009, 03:21:18
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '[')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')econd, I sincerely doubt that WHO officers were hiding in the trees with spyglasses and watching how much each doctor gets under the table over there; most likely is that some clerk maintaining the WHO website just divided funding of health care ministry on total population and multiplied it by that magic PPP coefficient.
Again. no. More detailed statistics available here: link
2006 Georgia statistics:
Government expenditure on health as a percentage of total national expenditure on health: 21.5%
Per capita government expenditure on health: $76 (ppp intl)
Per capita total expenditure on health: $355 (ppp intl)
Well, ppps again. What is the coefficient that they are using for Georgia -- 2, 3 , 4? That makes me wrong about Georgia's government spending funny money on healthcare? Surely if you add other possible venues of spending like military healthcare, training hospitals of sorts for medical students funded through a different ministry, finally treating their own bureaucrats overseas at governmental cost you can come up with something like 76 divided by ppp coefficient.
Same with total espendture , they probably counted sales of all drugs, medicinal herbs, all medical equipment for both hospital and domestic use, dental expences and so on, up to hand sanitizers or something. Average salary there is about $50-80 per month and 13.6% is an official unemployment fugure, pensions are around $25-40 per month, so if everyone including unemployed, children is shellling out 78.5% of those $355 every year, even with ppps coef, its prettty grand.
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