Health expenditure Australia 2013–14: analysis by sector
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2015) Health expenditure Australia 2013–14: analysis by sector, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 28 March 2024.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2015). Health expenditure Australia 2013–14: analysis by sector. Canberra: AIHW.
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This report extends the analysis presented in Health expenditure Australia 2013–14 to further explore expenditure on particular categories of health goods and services. In 2013–14, $58.8 billion was spent on hospitals in Australia, $54.7 billion on primary health care and $32.0 billion on other health goods and services. A further $9.1 billion was spent on capital expenditure. Unreferred medical services attracted the highest share of primary health care funding in 2013–14, at 19.3%. This is different to earlier in the decade, when benefit-paid pharmaceuticals attracted the most spending from 2008–09 to 2011–12. Growth in expenditure on benefit-paid pharmaceuticals slowed in the last 3 years compared with the rest of the decade. This slower growth in expenditure was in contrast to a steady increase in the number of prescriptions dispensed over the same period.
- ISSN: 2205-6610 (PDF) 1323-5850 (Print)
- ISBN: 978-1-74249-870-6
- Cat. no: HWE 65
- Pages: 108
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In 2013–14, nearly 20% of primary health care funding was for unreferred medical services ($10.6 billion)
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From 2003–04 to 2013–14, about 40% of recurrent health expenditure was for hospitals and 38% for primary health care
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Expenditure on benefit-paid pharmaceuticals grew from $6.7 billion to $10.0 billion from 2003–04 to 2013–14
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Total spending on health in Australia in 2013–14 was $155 million