Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
  • Sections
    • Introduction
      • Why measure expenditure on public health?
      • Responsibilities of different levels of government
      • National Public Health Expenditure Project
      • Introduction to the concepts
    • Background to discussion of available public health expenditure data
      • Sources of the data and relationships
    • Government public health expenditure data
      • Summary
      • Commonwealth grants to States and Territories for public health
      • State and Territory Government public health expenditure
      • Public health expenditure by local governments
    • Public health research
    • Public and community health expenditure in Australia, 1960-1998
    • Analysis of Commonwealth Grants Commission public health data
      • Comparison of Commonwealth Grants Commission data, 1996-97 and 1997-98
      • Standardised Commonwealth Grants Commission public health expenditure by State, 1997-98
    • Conclusion
  • End matter
    • References