Health expenditure Australia 2004–05

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Release Date: 29 Sep 2006

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2006) Health expenditure Australia 2004–05, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 24 April 2024.

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Health expenditure Australia 2004-05 examines expenditure on health goods and services in Australia for 1994-95 to 2004-05. It shows that Australia spent over $87 billion on health in 2004-05, an estimated rise of $8 billion since 2003-04. This report presents expenditure estimates by area of health expenditure, as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP), on a per person basis, by state and territory, by comparison with selected OECD and Asia-Pacific countries, and by source of funding (Australian Government, other governments and the non-government sector). This report will be helpful to anyone interested in studying, analysing and comparing estimates of health expenditure in Australia.

ISSN: 1323-5850
ISBN: 978 1 74024 613 2
Cat. no: HWE 35
Pages: 168

Preliminary material (163K PDF)
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and symbols
Sections
1. Background and executive summary (162K PDF)
  - Background
  - The structure of the health sector and its flow of funds
  - Executive summary
    - Funding
    - Private health insurance and other non-government expenditure
    - Hospital expenditure
    - Pharmaceuticals and other medications expenditure
  - Revisions to ABS estimates
2. Total health expenditure (183K PDF)
  - Health expenditure and the general level of economic activity
    - Health inflation
  - Health expenditure per person
  - Total health expenditure, by state and territory
  - Sources of growth in real health expenditure
  - Sources of nominal growth in health expenditure
3. Funding of health expenditure in Australia (250K PDF)
  - Broad trends
    - Total recurrent funding
  - Government sources of funds
  - Non-government funding
4. Health expenditure and funding, by area of health expenditure (230K PDF)
  - Recurrent expenditure on health goods and services
    - Institutional health services
    - Non-institutional health services
  - Capital formation
  - Capital consumption by governments
5. International comparisons (187K PDF)
  - Health expenditure in OECD countries
  - Health expenditure in the Asia-Pacific region
  - Australian System of Health Accounts
6. Technical notes (180K PDF)
  - General
    - Health Expenditure Advisory Committee (HEAC)
  - Definition of health expenditure
  - Data and methods used to produce estimates
    - General
    - State and territory expenditure tables
    - State government contracting of private hospital services
    - Expenditure by the Australian Government
    - Expenditure by state, territory and local governments
    - Expenditure by the non-government sector
    - Change in methodology for deflators
    - Blank cells in expenditure tables
    - Population
  - International comparisons
  - Revisions of definitions and estimates
    - Definitions
    - Revision of estimates
End matter (340K PDF)
- Appendixes
  1. National health expenditure matrices, 2002-03 to 2004-05
    - Notes to Appendix A tables
  2. State and territory health expenditure matrices, 2002-03 to 2004-05
    - Notes to Appendix B tables
  3. Price indexes and deflation
    - Price indexes
    - Deflation and constant price expenditure aggregates
    - Changes in methodology
  4. Capital in the Australian health sector
  5. Cross-border flows
  6. Mean resident population
- Glossary
- References

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