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released: 20 Jul 2005 author: AIHW media release

This report is the third comprehensive analysis of expenditures on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It examines expenditures in 2001-02 on health for Indigenous people and compares it with health expenditures for the rest of the Australian population. It examines health resource distribution and funding by different levels of government, the private sector, by region and by primary and secondary/tertiary health care. It also provides some information on the level of expenditure on health-related welfare services expenditure for Indigenous Australians. Estimates of health expenditures in 2001-02 are compared with those published previously for 1998-99.

ISSN 1323-5850; ISBN 978 1 74024 478 7; Cat. no. HWE 30; 92pp.; $27.00

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (238KB PDF)
  • Sections
    1. Introduction (145K PDF)
      • Terms of reference
      • Context
      • Data limitations
      • Quality of data on Indigenous service use
      • Quality of expenditure estimates
      • Economies of scale and geographic isolation
    2. Total government and non-government expenditure and funding (228K PDF)
      • Introduction
      • Expenditure and funding
      • Expenditure on health goods and services
      • Expenditure on primary and secondary/tertiary services
      • Funding of health services
      • Funding of primary and secondary/tertiary health services
    3. Changes in expenditure and funding over time (166K PDF)
    4. Australian Government expenditure and funding (211K PDF)
      • Introduction.
      • Australian Government expenditure
      • Changes in expenditure on selected major programs over time
    5. State and territory government expenditure and funding (249KB PDF)
      • Introduction
      • State and territory government expenditure
      • Local government expenditure
      • New South Wales Government expenditure
      • Victorian Government expenditure
      • Queensland Government expenditure
      • Western Australian Government expenditure
      • South Australian Government expenditure
      • Tasmanian Government expenditure
      • Australian Capital Territory Government expenditure
      • Northern Territory Government expenditure
      • State and territory government funding
      • Changes in expenditure over time
    6. Non-government expenditure (136KB PDF)
    7. Analysis of regional health expenditure (183KB PDF)
      • Introduction
      • ASGC Remoteness Areas
      • Limitations
      • Summary of findings
    8. Expenditure on health-related welfare services (148KB PDF)
      • Background
      • Total health-related welfare expenditure
      • Expenditure on welfare services for older people
      • Expenditure on welfare services for people with a disability
      • Expenditure on health-related services through ACCHSs
    9. Recommendations (89KB PDF)
  • End matter (138KB PDF)
    • Glossary
    • Steering Committee
    • Acknowledgments
    • References

Appendices (510KB PDF) (Additional tables: 368K XLS)

  • Appendix 1 Scope of report (Appendix 1-3: 295KB PDF)
    • Definition of health expenditure
    • Primary and secondary/tertiary care
    • Data limitations
  • Appendix 2 Population estimates
    • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population estimates
  • Appendix 3 Estimation of Australian Government expenditure on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
    • Expenditure by the Health and Ageing portfolio
    • Estimating health expenditure by DVA
    • Australian Government funding through private health insurance incentives payments
  • Appendix 4 Health services for older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people-some issues (Appendix 4-5: 219KB PDF)
  • Appendix 5 Hospital costing method
    • Introduction
    • Hospitalisation
    • Under-identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in admitted patient data
    • Admitted patient costing methodology
    • Non-admitted patient services
  • Appendix 6 Estimation methods for state and territory expenditures (Appendix 6-8: 267KB PDF)
    • State and territory data
    • New South Wales
    • Victoria
    • Queensland
    • Western Australia
    • South Australia
    • Tasmania
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • Northern Territory
  • Appendix 7 Non-government expenditure
    • Introduction
    • Methodology
  • Appendix 8 Estimation of health-related welfare expenditure
    • Introduction
    • Health-related welfare services for older people
    • Health-related welfare services for people with a disability
    • Health-related welfare services through Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services

Notes and corrections

The current version of the publication is presented above. Previous versions of files that have been updated or corrected are presented below.

  1. 20050808: The following changes in the printed version of this report have been corrected in the above downloadable version:
    • Page 14: added footnote (c) to Table 2.5 indicating the exclusion of expenditure on health administration and health services (nec).
    • Page 15: added footnote (b) to Table 2.6 indicating the exclusion of expenditure on health administration and health services (nec).
    • Page 21: Table 4.1 changed 1st line of the table from Public (psychiatric) hospitals to Public (non-psychiatric) hospitals.
    • Previous version (675KB PDF)

Recommended citation

AIHW 2005. Expenditures on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, 2001-02. Health and welfare expenditure series no. 23. Cat. no. HWE 30. Canberra: AIHW.