Health care expenditure on cardiovascular diseases 2000-01

Cardiovascular disease data briefing no. 1

Full publication

• Health care expenditure on cardiovascular diseases 2000-01 (199K PDF)

Highlights

• Cardiovascular diseases are the most expensive group of diseases in Australia in terms of direct health care expenditure. Cardiovascular diseases were responsible for 11% of total allocated health system expenditure - $5.48 billion in 2000-01.
• Hospital services accounted for nearly half of all health services expenditure for cardiovascular diseases, followed by pharmaceuticals (26%), medical services provided out of hospital (14%) and aged care homes (10%).
• Between 1993-94 and 2000-01, inflation-adjusted expenditure for cardiovascular diseases increased by 28%.

Publication table of contents

• Highlights
• Introduction
• Methods and limitations
• All cardiovascular diseases
• Expenditure by health service
• Expenditure per person and per case
• Expenditure by age and sex
• Changes from 1993-94 to 2000-01
• Coronary heart disease
• Stroke
• References and further reading
• Acknowledgments
• Table A1: Allocated health expenditure in Australia, 2000-01
• Table A2: Allocated health expenditure for all cardiovascular diseases in Australia per person by age and sex, 2000-01