● Bahamas

In the 1999-2000 fiscal year US$ 132.5 million was allocated to health - 14.8 per cent of national expenditure. Public health expenditure per capita was US$420, The bulk of expenditure was directed to hospital-based services.

● Barbados

Government allocation to MOH accounts for about 16 per cent of total government expenditure. In 1999-2000 the expenditure of the MOH was US$ 148 million, of which 22 per cent was allocated to family health, environmental health services, dental health and health promotion. Allocation of expenditures to secondary and tertiary care services was about 39 per cent; care of the elderly 8 per cent; and provision of pharmaceuticals 10 per cent.

● Jamaica

The Ministry of Health's budget grew from US$ 118.2 million in 1995-96 to US$ 188.2 million in 1999-2000. The performance of breast cancer screening in 2001 increased by 28.0 per cent over 2000. Approximately 140,550 prescriptions were dispensed at prices that were on average 40.0 per cent below prices at private-sector retail pharmacies in 2001. Prescriptions for chronic diseases accounted for 16.0 per cent of those dispensed, with the highest proportion of these being for hypertension.

● St Kitts & Nevis

In 2000, the Government spent US$ 444,444 on drugs and vaccines. A national formulary regulates purchases. Diabetes clinics were held monthly at district health centres and hypertension clinics at the district level.

● St Vincent & the Grenadines

From 1995 to 1999 Government expenditure on health amounted to EC$ 31.13 million per annum, 3.9 per cent of the GDP. In 1999, health expenditure amounted to EC$ 37.34 million, 13 per cent of the recurrent expenditure and 4.2 per cent of the GDP. In 1999, 32.8 per cent of the budget went to hospital services, 12.2 per cent went to community health services, and 13.1 per cent to pharmaceuticals.

● Trinidad & Tobago

The Government of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago allocation for health was TT$ 1.263 billion in 2003, approximately TT$ 10,000 or US$ 1.754 per capita. MOH level of expenditure increased by about 20 per cent during the 1990s, from US$ 83.6 million in 1991 to US$ 105.6 million in 1997. In 1997, primary care expenditure accounted for 10.9 per cent of total health expenditure.

Sources:

Jamaica.  Ministry of Health Report 2001; available at: http://www.moh.gov.jm/MOHAnnualReport2001.pdf
PAHO, Basic country health profiles for the Americas:
___, St. Vincent and the Grenadines; available at: http://www.paho.org/English/DD/AIS/cp_670.htm
___, Barbados; available at: http://www.paho.org/English/DD/AIS/cp_052.htm
___, Bahamas; available at: http://www.paho.org/English/DD/AIS/cp_044.htm
___, Jamaica; available at: http://www.paho.org/English/DD/AIS/cp_388.htm
___, Trinidad and Tobago; available at: http://www.paho.org/English/DD/AIS/cp_780.htm