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released: 6 Nov 2009 media release

Public health expenditure in Australia 2007-08 is the eighth in a series of annual reports on public health expenditure in Australia produced by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. In that time expenditure on public health activities by health departments has grown, in real terms, by a total of 77.7%, at an average annual growth rate of 7.4%. In 2007-08 it represented 2.2% of total recurrent expenditure on health-up from around 1.9% in the previous years. In the last year, from 2006-07 to 2007-08, public health expenditure increased by $444.0 million to $2,158.8 million. This was largely due to a substantial increase in spending on organised immunisation activities such as the National Human Papillomavirus vaccination program.

ISSN 1323-5850; ISBN 978 1 74024 971 3; Cat. no. HWE 47; 128pp.; INTERNET ONLY

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (280KB PDF)
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations and symbols
    • Summary  
  • Body section (447KB PDF)
    1. Introduction
      • 1.1 What is public health?
      • 1.2 Public health funding and expenditure
        • Indirect expenditures included in the estimates
        • Current prices and constant prices
    2. National funding and expenditure on public health activities
      • 2.1 Government funding
        • Australian Government funding
        • Funding by state and territory governments
      • 2.2 Government expenditure
      • 2.3 Public health expenditure per person
        • Average expenditure per person in each state and territory
      • 2.4 Growth in expenditure on public health activities
    3. Public health expenditure as a proportion of total recurrent health expenditure
      • 3.1 National and jurisdictional expenditure proportions
    4. Communicable disease control
      • 4.1 Introduction
      • 4.2 Expenditure
      • 4.3 Programs and activities
        • HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C and sexually transmitted infections
        • Needle and syringe programs
        • Other communicable disease control
    5. Selected health promotion
      • 5.1 Introduction
      • 5.2 Expenditure
      • 5.3 Programs and activities
        • National programs and activities
        • State and territory programs and activities
        • Other healthy eating and exercise programs
        • Breastfeeding programs
        • Injury prevention projects
        • Sun exposure and protection
        • Mental health awareness and promotion
    6. Organised immunisation
      • 6.1 Introduction
      • 6.2 Expenditure
      • 6.3 Programs and activities
        • National programs and activities
        • State and territory programs and activities
    7. Environmental health
      • 7.1 Introduction
      • 7.2 Expenditure
      • 7.3 Programs and activities
        • National programs and activities
        • State and territory programs and activities
    8. Food standards and hygiene
      • 8.1 Introduction
      • 8.2 Expenditure
      • 8.3 Programs and activities
        • National programs and activities
        • State and territory programs
    9. Screening programs
      • 9.1 Introduction
      • 9.2 Expenditure
      • 9.3 Programs and activities
        • National programs and activities
        • State and territory screening programs
    10. Prevention of hazardous and harmful drug use
      • 10.1 Introduction
      • 10.2 Expenditure
      • 10.3 Programs and activities
        • National hazardous and harmful alcohol use prevention programs and activities
        • State and territory programs and activities
        • National hazardous and harmful tobacco use prevention programs
        • State and territory hazardous and harmful tobacco use prevention programs
        • National hazardous and harmful illicit drug use prevention programs
        • State and territory hazardous and harmful illicit drug use prevention programs
    11. Public health research
      • 11.1 Introduction
      • 11.2 Expenditure
      • 11.3 Programs and activities
        • National research programs and activities
        • State and territory public health research programs and activities
  • End matter (261KB PDF)
    • Appendixes
      1. Technical notes
        • Public health activity definitions
        • Jurisdictions' technical notes
          • Role of Local Government Authorities within each jurisdiction
        • Method for allocating Australian Government expenditure by state/territory
        • Deflators
      2. Other activities related to public health
        • Introduction
        • Programs partially excluded from public health expenditure
          • Cervical screening
          • Innovative Health Services for Homeless Youth
          • Non-Government Organisation Treatment Grants Program
        • Programs wholly excluded from public health expenditure
          • The 45-49 year-old health check
      3. Developments in public health funding
        • Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) on Federal Financial Relations
      4. International definitions for Public health expenditure reporting
      5. Information on jurisdictional public health activities
        • Communicable disease control
          • HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, sexually transmitted infections
          • Needle and syringe programs
          • Other communicable disease control
        • Selected health promotion
        • Organised immunisation
        • Environmental health
        • Food standards and hygiene
        • Screening programs
          • Breast cancer screening
          • Cervical screening
        • Prevention of hazardous and harmful drug use
          • Alcohol
          • Tobacco
        • Public health research
          • Public health research programs
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • List of boxes

Recommended citation

AIHW 2009. Public health expenditure in Australia, 2007-08. Cat. no. HWE 47. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 13 January 2013 <http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=6442468302>.