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You are here: Home Reports & data Health & welfare expenditure Expenditure on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2006-07 Report editions
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Expenditure on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2006-07

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Release Date: 18 Dec 2009
Topic: Health & welfare expenditure
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Expenditure on health and high care residential aged care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people amounted to $2,976 million in 2006-07, or 3.1% of national expenditure on health and high care residential aged care. In 2006-07, the average expenditure per person on health and high care residential aged care was $5,696 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. For non-Indigenous people, the average expenditure per person was $4,557. The ratio of Indigenous to non-Indigenous expenditure per person was 1.25. For the Australian Government schemes of Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), total benefits paid per Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person were 59% of the amount spent on non-Indigenous people. Expenditure on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2006-07 provides policy makers and program managers with detailed information for further analysis.

  • ISSN: 1323-5850
  • ISBN: 978 1 74024 990 4
  • Cat. no: HWE 48
  • Pages: 72
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