Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments and authorship
    • Abbreviations and symbols
    • Summary
  • Sections
    1. Introduction
      • Background
      • What is public health?
      • Public health funding and expenditure
    2. Government funding of public health activities
      • SPPs to state and territory governments
    3. Government expenditure on public health activities
      • Public health expenditure per person
      • Average public health expenditure per person in each state and territory
      • Public health expenditure as a proportion of total recurrent health expenditure
    4. Growth in expenditure on public health activities
  • End matter
    • Appendix: technical notes
      • Definition of public health activities
      • Jurisdictions' technical notes
      • Method for allocating direct expenditure by the Australian Government to states and territories
      • Deflators
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • List of boxes