Expenditures on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, 2001-02

• Preliminary material (238KB PDF)
  • List of tables (278K XLS)
  • Additional tables in appendices
  • List of figures
  • List of appendices
  • Abbreviations and symbols
  • Executive summary

1. Introduction (145K PDF)
   • Terms of reference
   • Context
   • Data limitations
   • Quality of data on Indigenous service use
   • Quality of expenditure estimates
   • Economies of scale and geographic isolation
2. Total government and non-government expenditure and funding (228K PDF)
   • Introduction
   • Expenditure and funding
   • Expenditure on health goods and services
   • Expenditure on primary and secondary/tertiary services
   • Funding of health services
   • Funding of primary and secondary/tertiary health services
3. Changes in expenditure and funding over time (128K PDF)
4. Australian Government expenditure and funding (211K PDF)
   • Introduction.
   • Australian Government expenditure
   • Changes in expenditure on selected major programs over time
5. State and territory government expenditure and funding (249KB PDF)
   • Introduction
   • State and territory government expenditure
   • Local government expenditure
   • New South Wales Government expenditure
   • Victorian Government expenditure
   • Queensland Government expenditure
   • Western Australian Government expenditure
   • South Australian Government expenditure
   • Tasmanian Government expenditure
   • Australian Capital Territory Government expenditure
   • Northern Territory Government expenditure
   • State and territory government funding
   • Changes in expenditure over time
6. Non-government expenditure (136KB PDF)
7. Analysis of regional health expenditure (183KB PDF)
   • Introduction
   • ASGC Remoteness Areas
   • Limitations
   • Summary of findings
8. Expenditure on health-related welfare services (148KB PDF)
   • Background
   • Total health-related welfare expenditure
   • Expenditure on welfare services for older people
   • Expenditure on welfare services for people with a disability
   • Expenditure on health-related services through ACCHSs
9. Recommendations (89KB PDF)

• End matter (138KB PDF)
  • Glossary
  • Steering Committee
  • Acknowledgments
  • References

Appendices (510KB PDF) (Additional tables: 368K XLS)

• Appendix 1 Scope of report (Appendix 1-3: 295KB PDF)
  • Definition of health expenditure
  • Primary and secondary/tertiary care
  • Data limitations
• Appendix 2 Population estimates
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population estimates
• Appendix 3 Estimation of Australian Government expenditure on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • Expenditure by the Health and Ageing portfolio
  • Estimating health expenditure by DVA
  • Australian Government funding through private health insurance incentives payments
• Appendix 4 Health services for older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people—some issues
• Appendix 5 Hospital costing method
  • Introduction
  • Hospitalisation
  • Under-identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in admitted patient data
  • Admitted patient costing methodology
  • Non-admitted patient services
• Appendix 6 Estimation methods for state and territory expenditures (Appendix 6-8: 267KB PDF)
  • State and territory data
  • New South Wales
  • Victoria
  • Queensland
  • Western Australia
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • Northern Territory
• Appendix 7 Non-government expenditure
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
• Appendix 8 Estimation of health-related welfare expenditure
  • Introduction
  • Health-related welfare services for older people
  • Health-related welfare services for people with a disability
  • Health-related welfare services through Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services