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Activity 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08
Australian Government (a) States & territories (b) Total Australian Government (a) States & territories (b) Total Australian Government (a) States & territories (b) Total
Communicable disease control 35.9 211.7 247.6 40.7 213.5 254.2 37.5 219.2 256.7
Selected health promotion 41.6 209.3 250.9 47.5 235.9 283.5 87.2 279.4 366.6
Organised immunisation 132.5 188.3 320.8 119.3 316.8 436.1 70.5 633.8 704.3
Environmental health 15.1 70.1 85.2 18.8 70.7 89.6 19.6 76.2 95.7
Food standards and hygiene 15.0 19.3 34.3 16.6 17.9 34.5 18.9 19.5 38.4
Screening programs 78.8 148.9 227.6 93.6 168.3 261.9 99.9 189.2 289.1
Prevention of hazardous and harmful drug use 27.5 148.7 176.2 46.8 160.6 207.3 95.1 159.2 254.3
Public health research 92.6 31.2 123.8 125.2 22.5 147.7 134.0 19.6 153.6
PHOFA administration (c) 0.3 0.3
Total expenditure 439.1 1,027.5 1,466.7 508.4 1,206.4 1,714.8 562.7 1,596.1 2,158.8
Proportion of total public health expenditure (%) 29.9 70.1 100.0 29.6 70.4 100.0 26.1 73.9 100.0

  1. Australian Government expenditure does not include its funding of state/territory expenditure through specific purpose payments to states and territories.
  2. Relates to activity-specific, program-wide and agency-wide expenditure incurred by state and territory governments, including expenditure that is wholly or partly funded through Australian Government specific purpose payments to states and territories.
  3. Relates to expenditure incurred in administering funding under the Public Health Outcome Funding Agreements (PHOFAs).

Note

Components may not add to totals due to rounding.

Source

AIHW Health Expenditure Database.