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released: 30 Sep 2005 media release

This publication presents preliminary estimates for Australia for the year 2003-04, and time series data covering the period from 1993-94. It also provides detailed matrices of health expenditure at the national level for the years 2000-01 to 2003-04 and for each of the states and territories for the years 2000-01 to 2002-03 only.

ISSN 1323-5850; ISBN 978 1 74024 500 5; Cat. no. HWE 32; 162pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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Health expenditure Australia 2003-04

Health and welfare expenditure series no. 25

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Publication table of contents and summary

  • Preliminary material (41K PDF)
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • List of boxes
    • Preface
    • Abbreviations and symbols
  • Sections
    1. Background and summary (230K PDF)
      • Background
      • The structure of the health sector and its flow of funds
      • Summary of findings
      • Revisions to ABS estimates
    2. Total health expenditure (58K PDF)
      • Health expenditure and the general level of economic activity
      • Health expenditure per person
      • Total health expenditure, by state and territory
      • Sources of growth in real health expenditure
      • Sources of growth in nominal health expenditure
    3. Funding of health expenditure in Australia (120K PDF)
      • Broad trends
        • Total recurrent funding
      • Government sources of funds
      • Non-government sources of funds
      • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander funding, 2001-02
    4. Health expenditure and funding, by area of health expenditure (89K PDF)
      • Recurrent expenditure on health goods and services
        • Institutional health services
        • Non-institutional health services
      • Capital formation
      • Capital consumption by governments
    5. International comparisons (35K PDF)
      • Health expenditure in OECD countries
      • Health expenditure in the Asia-Pacific region
    6. Technical notes (71K PDF)
      • General
        • Health Expenditure Advisory Committee (HEAC)
      • Definition of health expenditure
      • Deflators
      • Data and methods used to produce estimates
        • General
        • State and territory expenditure tables
        • Expenditure by the Australian Government
        • Expenditure by state, territory and local governments
        • Expenditure by the non-government sector
        • Blank cells in expenditure matrices
        • Population
      • International comparisons
      • Preliminary estimates
      • Revisions of definitions and estimates
        • Definitions
        • Revision of estimates
  • End matter (263K PDF)
    • Appendixes
      1. National health expenditure matrices, 2000-01 to 2003-04
      2. State and territory health expenditure matrices, 2000-01 to 2002-03
      3. Proposed Australian System of Health Accounts
      4. Price indexes and deflation
        • Price indexes
        • Deflation and constant price expenditure aggregates
      5. Capital in the Australian health sector
      6. Cross-border flows and government contracting of private hospital services
        • Cross-border flows
        • State government contracting of private hospital services
      7. Expenditure on personal health by Burden of Disease category by age and sex
    • Glossary
    • References

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. There have been revisions to estimates for residential care for South Australia and Tasmania and public (psychiatric) hospitals for New South Wales (18 November 2005).

Recommended citation

AIHW 2005. Health expenditure Australia 2003-04. Cat. no. HWE 32. Canberra: AIHW.