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released: 14 Sep 2001 media release

Health Expenditure Bulletin No. 17 provides estimates of total expenditure on health services in Australia for 1989-90 to 1999-00. 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 - Commonwealth, other government and non-government.Detailed national and State data on particular areas of expenditure are also included. The State data cover the years 1996-97 to 1998-99 and the national data the period from 1989-90 to 1998-99.The bulletin will be helpful to anyone interested in studying, analysing and comparing measures of health services expenditure in Australia.

ISSN 1323-5850; ISBN 978 1 74024 139 7; Cat. no. HWE 18; 104pp.; $21.50

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Health Expenditure Bulletin No.17

Australia's Health Services Expenditure to 1999-00

Health and Welfare Expenditure Series No.12

Full publication (936KPDF & 312KXLS tables ; new version 592KPDF & 315KXLS tables)

  • Preliminary material
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables and figures
    • Abbreviations and symbols used in tables
  • Sections
    • Introduction
    • Total health services expenditure funding 1
    • Recurrent expenditure on health and health-related services and facilities
    • Health-related investment
    • International comparison 2
    • Health prices
    • Technical notes
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: National health expenditure matrices, 1989-90 to 1998-99 3
      • Appendix B: State and Territory health expenditure matrices, 1996-97 to 1998-99
    • References

Notes and corrections

  1. Table 17 has had an extra footnote "(c)" added, the source note has been revised and some of the column "A" labels have changed, eg. "expenses" is now "expenditure".
  2. There are three amendments to the Australian data in table29, page44. Nominal growth in health services expenditure has been amended from 6.9% to 6.2%, real growth in health services expenditure has been amended from 4.9% to 4.2%, and per person real growth has been amended from 3.7% to 3.1%. One of the numbers in the text on the same page needs to be amended from 3.7% to 3.1% (refer par.3, line4).
  3. Tables A10 - A12 have been revised.

Recommended citation

AIHW 2001. Australia's health services expenditure to 1999-00: Health expenditure bulletin no. 17. Health and Welfare Expenditure Series. Cat. no. HWE 18. Canberra: AIHW.