Health expenditure Australia 2004-05
Health expenditure Australia 2004-05 examines expenditure on health goods and services in Australia for 1994-95 to 2004-05. It shows that Australia spent over $87 billion on health in 2004-05, an estimated rise of $8 billion since 2003-04. This report presents expenditure estimates by area of health expenditure, as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP), on a per person basis, by state and territory, by comparison with selected OECD and Asia-Pacific countries, and by source of funding (Australian Government, other governments and the non-government sector). This report will be helpful to anyone interested in studying, analysing and comparing estimates of health expenditure in Australia.
ISSN 1323-5850; ISBN 978 1 74024 613 2; Cat. no. HWE 35; 168pp.; $30.00
Health expenditure Australia 2004-05
Health and welfare expenditure series no. 28
Full publication
Publication table of contents and summary
- Preliminary material (163K PDF)
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and symbols
- Sections
- Background and executive summary (162K PDF)
- Background
- The structure of the health sector and its flow of funds
- Executive summary
- Funding
- Private health insurance and other non-government expenditure
- Hospital expenditure
- Pharmaceuticals and other medications expenditure
- Revisions to ABS estimates
- Total health expenditure (183K 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 nominal growth in health expenditure
- Funding of health expenditure in Australia (250K PDF)
- Broad trends
- Government sources of funds
- Non-government funding
- Health expenditure and funding, by area of health expenditure (230K PDF)
- Recurrent expenditure on health goods and services
- Institutional health services
- Non-institutional health services
- Capital formation
- Capital consumption by governments
- International comparisons (187K PDF)
- Health expenditure in OECD countries
- Health expenditure in the Asia-Pacific region
- Australian System of Health Accounts
- Technical notes (180K PDF)
- General
- Health Expenditure Advisory Committee (HEAC)
- Definition of health expenditure
- Data and methods used to produce estimates
- General
- State and territory expenditure tables
- State government contracting of private hospital services
- Expenditure by the Australian Government
- Expenditure by state, territory and local governments
- Expenditure by the non-government sector
- Change in methodology for deflators
- Blank cells in expenditure tables
- Population
- International comparisons
- Revisions of definitions and estimates
- Definitions
- Revision of estimates
- End matter (340K PDF)
- Appendixes
- National health expenditure matrices, 2002-03 to 2004-05
- Notes to Appendix A tables
- State and territory health expenditure matrices, 2002-03 to 2004-05
- Notes to Appendix B tables
- Price indexes and deflation
- Price indexes
- Deflation and constant price expenditure aggregates
- Changes in methodology
- Capital in the Australian health sector
- Cross-border flows
- Mean resident population
- Glossary
- References
Notes and corrections
- 12 December 2006: An amendment has been made to Table 34: Recurrent funding of medical services, constant prices(a), by source of funds, and annual growth rates, 1994-95 to 2004-05 on page 63.
Recommended citation
AIHW 2006. Health expenditure Australia 2004-05. Cat. no. HWE 35. Canberra: AIHW.