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Area of expenditure 1997–98 2007–08 Average annual growth (%)
$m % $m % 1997–98 to 2007–08 1997–98 to 2002–03 2003–04 to 2007–08
Total hospitals 17,557 41.5 38,557 39.3 . . 4.5 5.1
Public hospital services (b) 13,898 32.8 30,817 31.4 . . 4.2 5.7
Private hospitals 3,659 8.6 7,740 7.9 4.2 5.4 2.8
Patient transport services 684 1.6 2,004 2.0 . . 8.5 6.4
Total institutional 18,241 43.1 40,561 41.4 4.8 4.6 5.1
Medical services 8,539 20.2 18,338 18.7 3.3 2.8 4.2
Dental services 2,596 6.1 6,106 6.2 . . 5.7 1.9
State/territory provider 333 0.8 612 0.6 . . 0.2 1.8
Private provider 2,263 5.3 5,493 5.6 . . 6.4 1.9
Other health practitioners 1,500 3.5 3,373 3.4 . . 4.5 3.7
Community health and other (c) 1,848 4.4 5,195 5.3 . . 9.7 7.0
Public health 700 1.7 2,264 2.3 . . 9.9 9.7
Medications 5,602 13.2 13,720 14.0 8.3 10.0 6.2
Benefit-paid pharmaceuticals 3,377 8.0 8,110 8.3 8.9 12.4 4.6
All other medications 2,225 5.3 5,611 5.7 7.5 6.6 8.6
Aids and appliances 1,218 2.9 3,114 3.2 . . 9.7 4.9
Health administration 1,442 3.4 2,614 2.7 2.4 3.6 0.3
Research 652 1.5 2,732 2.8 11.3 12.9 10.5
Total non-institutional 24,098 56.9 57,456 58.6 5.4 6.1 4.9
Total recurrent expenditure 42,339 100.0 98,017 100.0 5.1 5.5 5.0

  1. See Box 8.3 for explanation of constant price estimating method.
  2. Public hospitals (1997–98 to 2002–03) includes any dental services, community health services, patient transport services, public health and health research undertaken by the hospital. Can include services provided off the hospital site such as hospital in the home, dialysis or other services.
  3. 'Other' denotes 'other non-institutional n.e.c.'.

Note

Components may not add to totals due to rounding.

Source

AIHW 2009. Health expenditure Australia 2007–08. Health and welfare expenditure series no. 37. Cat. no. HWE 46. Canberra: AIHW.