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released: 2 Jul 1999 author: AIHW media release

Provides estimates of total expenditure on health services in Australia for 1989-90 to 1997-98. Expenditure estimates are presented at the aggregate level, as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), on a per person basis and by source of funding - government, health insurance funds or individuals. Experimental health expenditure matrices for all States and Territories for 1995-96 to 1996-97 are new features of the bulletin, while detailed national information on particular areas of expenditure are presented as in previous issues.

ISSN 1329 2137; Cat. no. HWE 13; 63pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables and figures
  • Sections
    1. Introduction
    2. Health services expenditure and GDP
    3. Funding of health services expenditure
      • Government sector funding of health services
      • Commonwealth Government
      • State and local governments
      • Government funding of public non-psychiatric hospitals
      • Non-government sector funding of health services
      • Funding of health services by health insurance funds
      • Individuals' out-of-pocket expenditure on health services
      • Other non-government sources of health services funding
    4. Health services expenditure by type of expenditure
      • Recurrent health services expenditure
      • Outlays on capital
    5. Health services expenditure per person
    6. Health prices
      • Price of health insurance and health prices
      • Prices of dental services
    7. Technical notes
      • Experimental health expenditure tables, by State and Territory
      • Methods used in producing State and Territory experimental estimates
      • Definitions, sources and notes
      • General
      • Price indexes
      • Revisions of definitions and estimates
      • Recognised public hospitals
      • Public psychiatric hospitals
      • Dental services
      • Research
      • Capital expenditure
      • Abbreviations and symbols used in tables
      • Other notes
    8. Annual health expenditure matrices
    9. References
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: Experimental State health expenditure matrices

Appendixes

Footnote:These Excel tables are subject to the same qualifications and rules for interpretation as those in Health Expenditure Bulletin No.15. When using these tables please ensure that you refer to the footnotes associated with the related table in Health Expenditure Bulletin No.15. See also the 'Technical Notes' in Health Expenditure Bulletin No.15 for additional notes regarding the data contained in these tables.

Recommended citation

AIHW 1999. Australia's health services expenditure to 1997-98. Health expenditure bulletin no. 15. Cat. no. HWE 13. Canberra: AIHW.