Questions used to gather health economics information include:

- How much of society's resources are devoted to health and to health services?
- What priority is given to different aspects of health and health services?
- What health services are people willing to pay for?
- What choices are made in the search of health and the improvement of health services?
- What are the results of these choices in terms of resource use and their impact on health?
- What are the direct and indirect costs?
- What is the relation between the economy as a whole and health?
- What influence do health services have on the economy as a whole?
- How far do changes in the environment and the state of natural resources affect health, and what are the costs?
- How efficient and effective are health services and how are they distributed in the community?

Adapted from World Health Organization. Terminology. A glossary of technical terms on the economics and finance of health services. Internet. Accessed December 18, 2015.