Australia's Health 1996

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Appendix 1 - Statistical tables - Part D

Hospital morbidity and utilisation (cont.)

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Table S39 (continued): Occupied bed-days in public acute and repatriation hospitals by most frequently occurring diagnoses, States and Territories, 1992-93 (per 100,000 population)
ICD-9-CM diagnosis	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Total
650 Delivery in a completely normal case	842	524	1,544	765	650	790	947	1,355	866
656 Other foetal and placental problems affecting management of mother	733	802	502	591	828	583	715	915	702
664 Trauma to perineum and vulva during delivery	1,107	1,116	746	702	876	1,324	1,048	1,252	995
682 Other cellulitis and abscess	715	532	644	641	536	451	350	2,638	640
715 Osteoarthrosis and allied disorders	1,427	972	957	1,583	1,400	799	1,073	187	1,207
724 Other and unspecified disorders of back	662	499	848	641	1,019	531	425	362	670
780 General symptoms	743	501	696	607	984	574	395	966	672
786 Symptoms involving respiratory system and other chest symptoms	658	354	663	453	919	567	491	623	579
789 Other symptoms involving abdomen and pelvis	689	480	846	711	901	686	513	628	679
813 Fracture of radius and ulna	338	228	266	329	323	299	237	1,041	299
996 Complications peculiar to certain specified procedures	1,201	936	821	1,402	1,356	651	978	428	1,073
998 Other complications of procedures, not elsewhere classified	758	535	573	638	607	578	468	349	632
V25 Contraceptive management	139	142	82	201	192	146	91	182	140
V56 Aftercare involving intermittent dialysis	1,208	1,166	1,319	1,103	1,053	842	1,285	20	1,174
V57 Care involving use of rehabilitation procedures	4,102	6,464	286	328	2,104	517	1,047	29	3,323
V58 Other and unspecified aftercare	2,406	1,000	650	1,369	1,432	1,483	1,348	207	1,500
Source: AIHW

Nursing homes

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Table S40: Nursing home residents( ⁴¹) and proportion of population resident, by age and sex, States and Territories, 30 June 1994 (number)
Age group	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Aust	% of pop'n
Females
Less than 50	187	91	74	37	40	13	6	8	456	0.01
50-59	280	138	106	56	59	20	12	7	678	0.08
60-64	316	160	123	61	59	26	10	5	760	0.22
65-69	680	342	259	140	165	36	18	6	1,646	0.46
70-74	1,478	793	578	261	337	98	32	15	3,592	1.14
75-79	2,691	1,530	1,059	511	639	202	55	15	6,702	2.90
80-84	4,761	2,594	1,930	942	1,031	357	101	20	11,736	7.12
85-89	5,079	3,047	2,135	1,083	1,245	389	82	21	13,081	15.27
90-94	3,511	2,186	1,555	746	852	278	51	10	9,189	28.44
95-99	1,280	773	565	245	338	74	20	-	3,295	43.65
100 and over	274	174	130	43	91	22	5	3	742	57.79
Total	20,537	11,828	8,514	4,125	4,856	1,515	392	110	51,877	0.58
Males
Less than 50	191	79	77	73	33	16	6	10	485	0.01
50-59	283	140	102	53	40	16	8	9	651	0.07
60-64	357	150	153	62	61	13	4	5	805	0.23
65-69	711	364	262	137	151	34	13	8	1,680	0.50
70-74	1,102	563	477	209	265	69	33	19	2,737	1.04
75-79	1,506	850	653	270	335	109	20	10	3,753	2.27
80-84	1,788	1,043	768	358	415	140	32	11	4,555	4.66
85-89	1,365	862	640	329	340	115	30	8	3,689	9.25
90-94	639	401	296	175	159	44	13	3	1,730	15.36
95-99	144	113	78	32	40	10	5	-	422	25.39
100 and over	35	37	15	14	11	3	-	-	115	39.25
Total	8,121	4,602	3,521	1,712	1,850	569	164	83	20,622	0.23
All persons	28,658	16,430	12,035	5,837	6,706	2,084	556	193	72,499	0.41

Table S41: Nursing home separations by length of stay, States and Territories, 1993-94 (per cent)
Duration	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Aust
Less than 4 weeks	26.9	25.2	18.4	24.2	21.2	25.7	14.3	31.7	24.5
4 to 7 weeks	10.9	9.3	7.9	7.1	9.4	10.3	6.5	25.2	9.7
8 to 12 weeks	5.7	6.7	4.7	5.2	8.0	6.0	6.5	5.6	6.0
13 to 25 weeks	7.9	10.2	7.6	8.7	10.0	7.7	7.5	3.7	8.7
26 to 38 weeks	4.8	7.5	5.5	5.6	5.4	5.8	5.1	3.7	5.7
39 to 51 weeks	3.8	6.0	5.0	4.6	4.1	8.8	4.4	3.7	4.8
1 to < 2 years	11.5	11.1	12.8	12.2	11.4	13.6	15.7	8.4	11.7
2 to < 3 years	7.6	7.9	10.3	8.9	8.6	7.1	11.3	4.6	8.2
3 to < 4 years	5.7	4.8	7.9	6.0	6.0	3.5	10.2	4.6	5.8
4 to < 5 years	4.4	3.3	4.8	4.7	4.2	2.5	6.8	-	4.2
5 to < 10 years	7.9	6.0	11.6	9.8	9.1	7.1	10.9	7.4	8.2
10 or more years	2.3	1.4	3.0	2.5	1.9	1.3	0.3	0.9	2.1
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Separations	15,462	8,907	5,003	3,018	3,569	1,167	292	107	37,525
Source: DHFS

Health expenditure

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Table S42: Total health expenditure (current and 1989-90 prices) and rate of growth, 1982-83 to 1993-94
	Total health expenditure ($m)		Annual rate of growth (%)
Year	Current prices	1989-90 prices( ⁴² )	Current prices	1989-90 prices(a)
1982-83	13,239	20,673
1983-84	14,958	21,960	13.0	6.2
1984-85	16,546	22,862	10.6	4.1
1985-86	18,586	24,180	12.3	5.8
1986-87	21,115	25,341	13.6	4.8
1987-88	23,333	26,287	10.5	3.7
1988-89	26,127	27,719	12.0	5.4
1989-90	28,795	28,795	10.2	3.9
1990-91	31,223	29,435	8.4	2.2
1991-92	33,134	30,316	6.1	3.0
1992-93	34,899	31,489	5.3	3.9
1993-94	36,663	32,765	5.1	4.0

Table S43: Total, recurrent and capital health expenditure (current and 1989-90 prices), 1975-76 to 1993-94 ($ million)
Year	Recurrent expenditure	Government capital consumption	Capital expenditure	Total expenditure
Current prices
1975-76	5,092	114	513	5,719
1976-77	5,901	150	552	6,603
1977-78	6,762	176	531	7,469
1978-79	7,462	200	579	8,240
1979-80	8,297	241	540	9,078
1980-81	9,457	268	499	10,224
1981-82	11,049	303	446	11,798
1982-83	12,434	341	464	13,239
1983-84	13,996	358	604	14,958
1984-85	15,397	380	769	16,546
1985-86	17,172	416	998	18,586
1986-87	19,528	454	1,133	21,115
1987-88	21,575	476	1,282	23,328
1988-89	24,275	487	1,365	26,127
1989-90	26,829	510	1,456	28,795
1990-91	29,253	521	1,449	31,223
1991-92	31,222	497	1,415	33,134
1992-93	32,759	508	1,632	34,899
1993-94	34,185	523	1,955	36,663
1989-90 prices( ⁴³ )
1975-76	15,706	350	1,623	17,679
1976-77	16,017	417	1,587	18,021
1977-78	16,979	450	1,412	18,841
1978-79	17,589	479	1,449	19,517
1979-80	17,769	515	1,219	19,502
1980-81	18,182	510	1,007	19,699
1981-82	19,087	511	795	20,393
1982-83	19,439	506	728	20,673
1983-84	20,603	492	864	21,960
1984-85	21,271	507	1,084	22,862
1985-86	22,396	509	1,274	24,180
1986-87	23,490	522	1,329	25,341
1987-88	24,333	520	1,434	26,287
1988-89	25,766	513	1,440	27,719
1989-90	26,829	510	1,456	28,795
1990-91	27,505	511	1,420	29,435
1991-92	28,423	490	1,403	30,316
1992-93	29,371	496	1,622	31,489
1993-94	30,314	511	1,939	32,765

Table S44: Total health expenditure, GDP and rate of growth (current prices), 1982-83 to 1993-94
Year	Total health expenditure		GDP		Health expenditure as % of GDP
Year	Amount ($m)	Growth rate (%)	Amount ($m)	Growth rate (%)	Health expenditure as % of GDP
1982-83	13,239		174,476		7.6
1983-84	14,958	13.0	195,830	12.2	7.6
1984-85	16,546	10.6	217,129	10.9	7.6
1985-86	18,586	12.3	241,034	11.0	7.7
1986-87	21,115	13.6	265,029	10.0	8.0
1987-88	23,328	10.5	299,629	13.1	7.8
1988-89	26,127	12.0	339,927	13.4	7.7
1989-90	28,795	10.2	371,051	9.2	7.8
1990-91	31,223	8.4	378,082	1.9	8.3
1991-92	33,134	6.1	386,213	2.2	8.6
1992-93	34,899	5.3	403,453	4.5	8.7
1993-94	36,663	5.1	426,812	5.8	8.6
Sources: AIHW; ABS Cat. Nos. 5204.0, 5206.0

Table S45: Health expenditure per person (current and 1989-90 prices) and rate of growth, 1982-83 to 1993-94
Year	Expenditure per person ($)		Rate of growth (%)
Year	Current prices	1989-90 prices( ⁴⁴ )	Current prices	1989-90 prices
1982-83	866	1,352
1983-84	966	1,420	11.5	5.0
1984-85	1,055	1,458	9.2	2.7
1985-86	1,169	1,521	10.8	4.3
1986-87	1,309	1,571	12.0	3.3
1987-88	1,424	1,604	8.7	2.1
1988-89	1,566	1,661	10.0	3.6
1989-90	1,700	1,700	8.6	2.3
1990-91	1,818	1,714	6.9	0.8
1991-92	1,905	1,743	4.8	1.7
1992-93	1,985	1,791	4.2	2.8
1993-94	2,066	1,846	4.0	3.0

Table S46: Total health expenditure (current prices), 1983-84, 1988-89 and 1993-94 ($ million)
Health expenditure	1983-84	1988-89	1993-94
Recurrent health expenditure
Institutional
Hospitals
Recognised public	4,651	7,675	9,512
Repatriation	227	411	357
Private	803	1,335	2,333
Public psychiatric	564	719	473
Total hospitals	6,245	10,140	12,675
Total nursing homes	1,257	2,085	2,647
Other institutional services	258	402	613
Total institutional	7,760	12,626	15,934
Non-institutional
Medical services	2,416	4,351	6,884
Dental services	622	1,253	1,831
Other professional services	433	961	1,244
Community and public health	413	1,033	1,582
Pharmaceuticals	1,221	2,164	4,042
Other non-institutional( ⁴⁵)	1,131	1,887	2,668
Total non-institutional	6,236	11,649	18,251
Total recurrent health expenditure( ⁴⁶	13,996	24,275	34,185
Capital health expenditure	604	1,365	1,955
Capital consumption	358	487	523
Total health expenditure	14,958	26,127	36,663

Table S47: Total health expenditure (1989-90 prices), 1983-84, 1988-89 and 1993-94 ($ million)
Health expenditure	1983-84	1988-89	1993-94
Recurrent health expenditure
Institutional
Hospitals
Recognised public	6,788	8,104	8,538
Repatriation	331	434	321
Private	1,172	1,410	2,094
Public psychiatric	823	759	425
Total hospitals	9,115	10,707	11,377
Total nursing homes	1,835	2,202	2,376
Other institutional services	376	424	550
Total institutional	11,326	13,333	14,303
Non-institutional
Medical services	3,664	4,742	6,179
Dental services	1,096	1,366	1,476
Other professional services	628	1,013	1,123
Community and public health	567	1,084	1,396
Pharmaceuticals	1,753	2,253	3,497
Other non-institutional( ⁴⁷)	1,570	1,976	2,341
Total non-institutional	9,278	12,434	16,012
Total recurrent health expenditure( ⁴⁸	20,604	25,766	30,314
Capital health expenditure	864	1,440	1,939
Capital consumption	492	513	511
Total health expenditure	21,960	27,719	32,765

Table S48: Total health expenditure (1989-90 prices),( ⁴⁹) by source of funds, 1970-71 to 1993-94 ($ million)
	Public sector
Year	Commonwealth government	State and local government	Total government	Private sector	All sectors
1970-71	3,262	3,340	6,602	5,043	11,644
1971-72	3,658	3,521	7,179	5,157	12,336
1972-73	3,866	3,717	7,583	5,393	12,977
1973-74	4,039	4,152	8,191	5,299	13,489
1974-75	4,436	5,120	9,556	5,680	15,237
1975-76	8,301	4,457	12,758	4,921	17,679
1976-77	7,403	4,522	11,926	6,095	18,021
1977-78	6,798	4,801	11,599	7,243	18,841
1978-79	6,872	5,233	12,105	7,412	19,517
1979-80	6,747	5,180	11,927	7,575	19,502
1980-81	6,957	5,318	12,276	7,424	19,699
1981-82	7,068	5,530	12,597	7,795	20,393
1982-83	6,972	5,467	12,439	8,234	20,673
1983-84	8,351	5,692	14,043	7,917	21,960
1984-85	10,454	5,797	16,250	6,611	22,862
1985-86	11,030	6,147	17,177	7,003	24,180
1986-87	11,253	6,557	17,810	7,531	25,341
1987-88	11,540	6,788	18,329	7,958	26,287
1988-89	11,802	7,160	18,962	8,757	27,719
1989-90	12,104	7,570	19,674	9,120	28,795
1990-91	12,321	7,677	19,998	9,437	29,435
1991-92	12,856	7,689	20,545	9,771	30,316
1992-93	13,648	7,726	21,374	10,116	31,489
1993-94	14,680	7,381	22,062	10,703	32,765

Table S49: Total health expenditure by area of expenditure and source of funds,( ⁵⁰) 1993-94 ($ million)
Area of expenditure	Public sector			Private sector				Total
Area of expenditure	Common- wealth	State/local	Total	Health insurance funds	Indiv- iduals	Other ( ⁵¹)	Total	Total
Institutional
Recognised public	4,661	4,029	8,689	493	-	329	822	9,512
Private	168	-	168	1,867	140	159	2,165	2,333
Repatriation	352	-	352	5	-	-	5	357
Public psychiatric	11	443	453	-	18	2	20	473
Total hospitals	5,191	4,471	9,662	2,365	158	490	3,013	12,675
Nursing homes	1,783	237	2,020	-	627	-	627	2,647
Ambulance	37	226	263	84	118	19	221	484
Other institutional (nec)	128	1	128	-	-	-	-	128
Other institutional services	165	227	391	84	118	19	221	613
Total institutional	7,139	4,935	12,074	2,449	903	509	3,861	15,934
Non-institutional
Medical services	5,700	-	5,700	208	683	294	1,185	6,884
Dental services	58	139	197	539	1,089	6	1,634	1,831
Other professional services	165	-	165	188	754	137	1,079	1,244
Community and public health( ⁵²)	410	1,325	1,735	1	-	2	3	1,738
Benefits paid pharm.	1,887	-	1,887	-	396	-	396	2,282
All other pharm.	-	-	-	42	1,698	19	1,760	1,760
Total pharmaceuticals	1,887	-	1,887	42	2,094	19	2,156	4,042
Aids and appliances	138	1	139	168	433	29	630	770
Administration	444	172	616	483	-	-	483	1,099
Research( ⁵³)	368	105	473	-	61	-	61	534
Other non-institutional	14	95	109	-	-	-	-	109
Total non-institutional	9,183	1,838	11,021	1,629	5,114	487	7,230	18,251
Total recurrent expenditure	16,321	6,678	23,000	4,078	6,017	996	11,091	34,091
Capital expenditure	80	891	971	na	na	na	984( ⁵⁴)	1,955
Capital consumption	42	481	523	( ⁵⁵)	^(f)	(f)	(f)	523
Total health expenditure	16,443	8,145	24,588	na	na	na	12,075	36,663

Table S50: Total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP, Australia and selected OECD countries, 1970 to 1994 (per cent)
Year	( ⁵⁶)Aust	Can	Fra	( ⁵⁷)Ger	Jpn	NZ	Swe	UK	USA	Nine country mean( ⁵⁸	Eight country mean( ⁵⁹
1970	5.2	7.1	5.8	5.9	4.6	5.2	7.1	4.5	7.3	5.9	5.7
1971	5.7	7.4	6.0	6.3	4.7	5.2	7.5	4.6	7.5	6.1	5.9
1972	5.9	7.2	6.2	6.5	4.8	5.3	7.5	4.7	7.6	6.2	6.0
1973	5.8	6.9	6.2	6.8	4.7	5.5	7.3	4.6	7.6	6.2	6.0
1974	5.9	6.8	6.3	7.4	5.1	6.1	7.6	5.3	7.9	6.5	6.3
1975	6.5	7.2	7.0	8.1	5.6	6.7	7.9	5.5	8.4	7.0	6.8
1976	7.5	7.2	7.0	8.1	5.6	6.3	8.2	5.5	8.6	7.1	6.9
1977	7.5	7.2	7.0	8.1	5.8	6.6	9.1	5.3	8.7	7.3	7.1
1978	7.8	7.2	7.3	8.1	6.0	7.1	9.1	5.3	8.7	7.4	7.2
1979	7.6	7.1	7.4	8.1	6.1	7.0	9.0	5.3	8.8	7.4	7.2
1980	7.4	7.4	7.6	8.4	6.6	7.2	9.4	5.6	9.3	7.7	7.5
1981	7.3	7.5	7.9	8.7	6.6	6.9	9.5	5.9	9.6	7.8	7.5
1982	7.5	8.4	8.0	8.6	6.8	6.6	9.6	5.8	10.4	8.0	7.7
1983	7.7	8.6	8.2	8.5	6.9	6.4	9.5	6.0	10.6	8.0	7.7
1984	7.7	8.5	8.5	8.7	6.7	6.0	9.3	5.9	10.5	8.0	7.7
1985	7.7	8.5	8.5	8.7	6.6	6.4	8.9	5.9	10.8	8.0	7.7
1986	7.7	8.8	8.5	8.6	6.6	6.6	8.6	5.9	11.0	8.0	7.7
1987	8.0	8.9	8.5	8.7	7.1	6.9	8.6	5.9	11.3	8.2	7.8
1988	7.8	8.8	8.6	8.8	6.9	6.9	8.6	5.8	11.6	8.2	7.8
1989	7.7	9.0	8.7	8.3	6.8	7.2	8.6	5.8	12.0	8.2	7.8
1990	7.8	9.4	8.9	8.3	6.8	7.4	8.6	6.0	12.7	8.4	7.9
1991	8.3	10.0	9.1	8.4	6.7	7.8	8.4	6.5	13.4	8.7	8.2
1992	8.6	10.2	9.4	8.6	7.0	7.7	7.6	7.0	13.8	8.9	8.3
1993	8.6	10.2	9.8	8.6	7.3	7.7	7.5	7.1	14.1	9.0	8.4
1994	8.5		10.0				7.0		14.3
Average	7.3	8.1	7.9	8.1	6.2	6.6	8.4	5.7	10.3	7.6	7.3

Table S51: Proportion of population with basic and supplementary hospital insurance,( ⁶⁰) States, 1983 to 1995 (per cent)
Date	( ⁶¹)NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	( ⁶²)SA	Tas	NT	Aust
Basic
31 December 1983	63.9	70.2	38.9	60.5	66.3	64.7		61.5
31 December 1984	47.0	52.8	35.5	52.0	54.2	51.4		47.9
31 December 1985	50.1	53.8	35.6	50.9	53.4	50.6		49.1
31 December 1986	51.5	55.0	34.7	47.2	51.3	50.7		49.2
31 December 1987	50.5	52.2	33.3	45.5	49.3	49.6		47.5
31 December 1988	49.3	50.3	32.7	43.6	48.3	48.8		46.2
31 December 1989	47.0	50.0	32.1	41.8	44.3	48.2		44.5
31 December 1990	47.0	51.2	31.8	40.8	43.1	46.9		44.5
31 December 1991	45.2	44.5	32.8	41.0	40.0	43.8		41.9
31 December 1992	43.4	42.0	32.7	40.8	37.8	42.7		40.4
31 December 1993	41.0	38.9	32.9	39.6	35.6	40.2		38.4
31 December 1994	38.7	36.0	31.9	38.3	35.9	38.4	14.4	36.3
31 December 1995	35.1	34.1	31.6	37.4	34.4	37.8	25.2	34.3
Supplementary( ⁶³
31 December 1983	21.6	36.7	19.9	32.3	41.0	46.8		28.8
31 December 1984	24.2	35.6	24.2	33.1	40.0	43.3		30.0
31 December 1985	30.1	41.1	24.9	35.1	40.3	43.5		33.9
31 December 1986	32.8	43.0	24.5	39.9	39.4	44.4		35.7
31 December 1987	38.7	42.8	26.6	40.9	40.8	44.5		38.3
31 December 1988	39.6	42.1	26.7	39.9	41.4	44.6		38.4
31 December 1989	39.5	43.3	26.9	38.9	38.7	44.8		38.4
31 December 1990	40.1	46.6	27.1	38.4	39.3	44.2		39.4
31 December 1991	39.1	40.7	28.5	39.0	37.4	41.5		37.6
31 December 1992	38.1	39.1	28.8	39.3	36.0	40.9		36.7
31 December 1993	36.5	36.7	29.5	34.1	38.4	38.8		35.3
31 December 1994	34.9	34.2	29.0	37.4	34.6	37.3	13.3	33.7

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Table S52: Employment in the health industry, August 1981 to August 1995
Year	Employed in health industry ('000)	All employed persons ('000)	Proportion of all employed persons (per cent)	Civilian labour force( ⁶⁴) ('000)	Proportion of civilian labour force(a) (per cent)
1981	406.1	6,393.7	6.4	6,774.3	6.0
1982	424.5	6,379.3	6.7	6,840.7	6.2
1983	440.6	6,241.1	7.1	6,927.9	6.4
1984	453.6	6,466.1	7.0	7,070.1	6.4
1985	461.6	6,675.6	6.9	7,248.3	6.4
1986	489.2	6,918.6	7.1	7,516.2	6.5
1987	510.5	7,092.3	7.2	7,694.4	6.6
1988	530.7	7,353,4	7.2	7,892.1	6.7
1989	520.3	7,727.6	6.7	8,197.0	6.3
1990	557.9	7,825.0	7.1	8,412.5	6.6
1991	580.0	7,669.2	7.6	8,475.2	6.8
1992	575.3	7,679.3	7.5	8,585.7	6.7
1993	561.4	7,621.0	7.4	8,537.0	6.6
1994	547.2	7,885.7	6.9	8,683.5	6.3
1995	591.9	8,217.7	7.2	8,939.6	6.6

Use of professional services

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Table S53: Medical and optometrical services, fees and benefits under Medicare, 1988-89 to 1994-95
Year	Number of services (million)	Fees charged ($ million)	Schedule fees ($ million)	Benefits paid ($ million)
GP attendances
1988-89	80.1	1,483.9	1,573.3	1,338.3
1989-90	85.2	1,677.4	1,775.0	1,509.3
1990-91	85.0	1,800.7	1,919.5	1,631.4
1991-92	89.0	1,974.4	2,135.2	1,781.8
1992-93	93.2	2,166.2	2,353.4	1,997.8
1993-94	96.7	2,288.7	2,503.1	2,126.1
1994-95	98.4	2,361.5	2,582.7	2,195.6
Specialist attendances
1988-89	13.7	651.9	646.8	544.2
1989-90	14.3	719.9	707.0	595.0
1990-91	14.9	792.5	770.8	648.4
1991-92	15.6	863.7	840.6	705.0
1992-93	16.3	930.9	908.0	763.3
1993-94	16.8	977.4	957.4	806.2
1994-95	17.5	1,031.2	1,005.7	847.3
Obstetrics
1988-89	0.6	74.1	59.8	45.9
1989-90	0.6	82.8	63.3	48.7
1990-91	0.6	95.4	76.0	58.3
1991-92	0.6	95.5	73.9	56.7
1992-93	0.7	93.7	71.8	55.3
1993-94	0.7	92.0	70.0	54.1
1994-95	0.7	93.9	70.8	55.0
Anaesthetics
1988-89	1.4	107.5	94.1	71.3
1989-90	1.4	119.7	102.7	77.7
1990-91	1.5	135.5	113.5	85.9
1991-92	1.6	151.3	125.4	94.9
1992-93	1.6	165.4	137.9	104.4
1993-94	1.6	171.2	142.4	107.7
1994-95	1.7	184.0	152.1	115.0
Pathology(a)
1988-89	31.5	600.5	605.7	507.6
1989-90	26.0	648.7	661.8	554.5
1990-91	26.1	729.0	754.2	631.9
1991-92	30.4	725.4	751.7	629.2
1992-93	39.7	734.5	757.0	634.0
1993-94	42.9	795.5	837.8	703.1
1994-95	47.0	869.9	926.3	778.3
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Table S53 (continued): Medical and optometrical services, fees and benefits under Medicare, 1988-89 to 1994-95
Year	Number of services (million)	Fees charged ($ million)	Schedule fees ($ million)	Benefits paid ($ million)
Diagnostic imaging
1988-89	7.2	483.8	464.2	394.7
1989-90	7.7	554.8	537.4	458.7
1990-91	8.3	638.6	626.3	534.9
1991-92	8.5	683.9	678.8	578.8
1992-93	9.1	762.7	765.7	655.2
1993-94	9.5	833.7	848.4	728.7
1994-95	9.9	904.2	925.9	797.1
Operations
1988-89	3.8	464.8	424.2	334.6
1989-90	4.1	526.0	474.6	375.3
1990-91	4.5	595.5	532.4	420.9
1991-92	4.7	665.0	593.0	468.0
1992-93	4.9	718.4	643.4	509.3
1993-94	5.0	727.6	652.6	515.8
1994-95	5.2	761.6	679.6	537.2
Optometry
1988-89	2.2	76.2	85.8	73.0
1989-90	2.4	87.1	98.8	84.1
1990-91	2.6	99.4	113.6	96.6
1991-92	2.8	108.6	124.8	106.1
1992-93	3.0	119.1	137.6	117.0
1993-94	3.2	125.7	145.6	123.9
1994-95	3.3	131.5	152.7	129.8
All other services(b)
1988-89	2.9	114.8	111.6	91.9
1989-90	3.1	134.6	130.0	107.0
1990-91	3.4	169.4	162.6	135.1
1991-92	3.6	208.0	200.9	167.6
1992-93	3.8	231.3	223.7	187.4
1993-94	4.2	263.5	256.8	214.6
1994-95	4.4	295.5	288.4	241.0
Total services
1988-89	143.4	4,057.7	4,065.5	3,401.4
1989-90	144.8	4,551.1	4,550.6	3,810.1
1990-91	146.9	5,056.0	5,069.1	4,243.3
1991-92	156.8	5,475.8	5,524.3	4,588.2
1992-93	172.3	5,922.1	5,998.5	5,023.7
1993-94	180.6	6,275.2	6,414.0	5,380.1
1994-95	188.1	6,633.3	67,84.2	5,696.4
(a) Pathology schedule structure changed in August 1989 with a 35% reduction in number of items. In February 1992, a patient episode initiation item was introduced, artificially inflating the number of pathology services. (b) Includes radiotherapy and nuclear medicine therapy, assistance at operations and other miscellaneous items. Source: DHSH 1995d

Table S54: Medicare services, age-specific rates, by sex, 1989-90 to 1994-95
Sex/Age group	1989-90	1990-91	1991-92	1992-93	1993-94	1994-95
Males
0-4	8.67	8.49	8.90	9.73	9.85	9.60
5-9	5.09	4.76	5.00	5.39	5.43	5.24
10-14	4.23	3.98	4.22	4.50	4.60	4.50
15-19	4.32	4.22	4.37	4.68	4.68	4.67
20-24	4.45	4.37	4.57	4.90	5.00	5.02
25-34	4.89	4.88	5.14	5.49	5.58	5.77
35-44	5.71	5.72	6.00	6.39	6.60	6.91
45-54	7.37	7.39	7.66	8.22	8.82	9.23
55-64	10.76	10.98	11.70	12.72	13.35	14.01
65-74	11.32	11.47	12.55	14.18	15.82	17.11
75 and over	16.32	16.43	17.35	18.85	19.85	20.38
Crude rate	6.73	6.72	7.11	7.73	8.07	8.35
Age-standardised rate( ⁶⁵)	6.89	6.86	7.24	7.85	8.20	8.45
Females
0-4	7.91	7.71	8.10	8.88	9.01	8.80
5-9	5.04	4.73	4.99	5.39	5.44	5.23
10-14	4.39	4.17	4.39	4.68	4.79	4.67
15-19	7.34	7.31	7.63	8.18	8.27	8.37
20-24	9.96	9.70	10.20	11.13	11.43	11.64
25-34	11.09	10.89	11.38	12.40	12.62	13.05
35-44	9.84	9.81	10.36	11.27	11.61	12.11
45-54	11.09	11.18	11.71	12.77	13.52	14.00
55-64	12.89	13.03	13.85	15.03	15.54	16.20
65-74	15.48	15.50	16.46	17.73	18.57	19.21
75 and over	19.15	19.33	20.41	21.94	22.87	23.43
Crude rate	10.29	10.24	10.81	11.75	12.14	12.49
Age-standardised rate(a)	10.17	10.08	10.61	11.51	11.88	12.19

Table S55: Medicare services, age-specific rates, by sex, States and Territories, 1994-95 (services per person)
Sex/ Age group	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Aust
Males
0-4	10.35	9.27	9.95	8.18	9.46	8.46	9.01	6.10	9.60
5-9	5.64	5.35	5.17	4.57	4.97	4.38	4.90	3.07	5.24
10-14	4.91	4.39	4.55	4.00	4.16	3.95	4.32	2.62	4.50
15-19	5.08	4.51	4.78	4.19	4.39	4.04	4.21	2.70	4.67
20-24	5.60	5.03	4.84	4.25	4.74	4.38	3.94	2.91	5.02
25-34	6.53	5.82	5.33	4.78	5.35	4.83	4.85	3.59	5.77
35-44	7.87	6.74	6.69	5.86	6.22	5.74	5.75	4.88	6.91
45-54	10.42	8.78	9.03	8.16	8.27	8.01	8.15	6.92	9.23
55-64	15.80	13.44	13.21	12.80	12.43	12.35	12.47	9.73	14.01
65-74	18.71	16.85	15.72	16.73	16.13	13.25	16.71	11.00	17.11
75 and over	21.82	20.85	18.79	19.04	19.40	16.18	20.28	11.79	20.38
Crude rate	9.36	8.24	7.96	7.25	7.92	7.10	6.80	4.75	8.35
ASR( ⁶⁶)	9.36	8.30	8.10	7.53	7.82	7.10	7.63	5.49	8.45
Females
0-4	9.53	8.36	9.21	7.55	8.66	7.64	8.64	5.50	8.80
5-9	5.54	5.37	5.16	4.60	5.02	4.47	5.09	3.18	5.23
10-14	4.94	4.63	4.69	4.31	4.42	4.31	4.52	2.92	4.67
15-19	8.87	7.65	8.96	8.22	7.68	8.51	7.55	6.63	8.37
20-24	12.62	11.07	11.86	11.13	10.23	11.72	10.06	8.77	11.64
25-34	13.94	12.89	12.86	12.56	11.89	12.16	12.20	9.54	13.05
35-44	13.21	11.80	11.91	11.37	10.97	10.84	10.89	9.22	12.11
45-54	15.25	13.45	13.94	13.06	12.82	12.76	12.43	10.26	14.00
55-64	17.77	15.61	15.99	14.68	14.66	14.74	14.58	10.25	16.20
65-74	20.80	18.70	19.01	17.48	17.51	16.65	17.36	12.76	19.21
75 and over	24.02	24.00	23.56	21.11	22.42	21.25	21.48	14.52	23.43
Crude rate	13.53	12.27	12.33	11.36	11.74	11.40	10.77	7.85	12.49
ASR(a)	13.12	11.86	12.18	11.32	11.19	11.17	11.11	8.54	12.19

Table S56: Medicare services, percentage of enrolled persons by number of services, by age group and sex, 1993-94 (per cent)
	Number of services
Sex/Age group	0	1	2	3	4	5 or more
Males
0-4	6.38	6.41	7.15	7.46	7.27	65.33
5-9	15.00	11.83	11.17	9.93	8.56	43.51
10-14	20.27	14.54	12.36	10.13	8.07	34.63
15-19	21.22	14.42	11.85	9.42	7.65	35.44
20-24	24.44	13.45	10.81	8.65	7.04	35.61
25-34	29.95	12.66	9.81	7.77	6.25	33.56
35-44	25.65	12.31	9.40	7.41	6.17	39.06
45-54	20.48	10.93	8.29	6.66	5.71	47.93
55-64	16.81	7.13	5.72	5.01	4.64	60.69
65-74	27.27	4.43	3.76	3.38	3.26	57.90
75 and over	50.56	2.22	1.92	1.71	1.72	41.87
All ages	23.78	10.57	8.64	7.16	6.07	43.78
Females
0-4	7.15	7.31	7.91	8.06	7.69	61.88
5-9	15.09	12.11	11.26	9.87	8.48	43.19
10-14	19.94	14.46	12.45	10.07	8.03	35.05
15-19	13.54	10.25	9.36	8.17	7.12	51.56
20-24	10.90	5.69	5.83	5.91	5.81	65.86
25-34	15.75	5.08	4.86	5.12	5.06	64.13
35-44	13.62	6.71	5.78	5.97	5.77	62.15
45-54	10.89	5.91	5.12	5.14	5.09	67.85
55-64	11.00	4.67	4.27	4.33	4.34	71.39
65-74	16.86	3.22	3.11	3.14	3.28	70.39
75 and over	43.11	1.46	1.50	1.54	1.66	50.73
All ages	16.32	6.49	6.00	5.78	5.43	59.98
Source: HIC 1995

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41: Excludes homes not specifically catering for aged persons.; DHFS; AIHW
42: Health expenditure 1982-83 to 1993-94 deflated to constant 1989-90 prices using specific health deflators.; AIHW
43: Health expenditure 1977-78 to 1993-94 deflated to constant 1989-90 prices using specific health deflators.; AIHW
44: Health expenditure 1982-83 to 1993-94 is deflated to constant 1989-90 prices using specific health deflators.; AIHW
45: Includes aids and appliances, research, administration and other non-institutional services.
46: Does not include capital consumption.; AIHW
47: Includes aids and appliances, research, administration and other non-institutional services.
48: Does not include government capital consumption.; AIHW
49: Health expenditure 1970-71 to 1993-94 deflated to constant 1989-90 prices using specific health deflators. Not adjusted for tax rebates for health expenditures and other tax expenditures.; AIHW
50: The table records amounts provided by Commonwealth, State and local governments and the private sector to fund health expenditure. It does not record gross outlays by various sectors on health.
51: The 'Other' column includes the health expenditure by workers compensation and compulsory motor vehicle third party insurance funds.
52: Includes the old categories of community health services and health promotion and illness prevention.
53: Health research expenditure is allocated according to the sectors which actually undertake the research, not according to the source of funds.
54: Capital expenditure for the private sector cannot be allocated by source of funds.
55: Capital consumption or depreciation expenditure by the private sector is included in recurrent expenditure.; AIHW
56: This table follows the Australian convention of labelling Australian data for a financial year by the second year (that is, 1974-75 data are labelled 1975), whereas data for Australia in OECD publications are labelled by the first year (that is, 1974-75 data are labelled 1974).
57: West Germany only.
58: Unweighted means.
59: Unweighted means. Excludes USA.; OECD 1995; AIHW
60: Holding basic insurance is a prerequisite for taking out supplementary insurance cover. Therefore, the population holding supplementary insurance is included in the data for those holding basic insurance coverage.
61: The insured population includes most ACT residents with insurance. However, the denominator of this proportion is the total population of NSW and ACT.
62: Includes most NT residents. Since December 1994 many NT insurees have registered with NT funds.
63: From September quarter 1995, the Private Health Insurance Administration Council no longer collects data on supplementary insurance.; Private Health Insurance Administration Council
64: Includes unemployed persons looking for work.; ABS Cat. No. 6203.0
65: Reference population is the 30 June 1991 Australian population.; HIC 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995; AIHW
66: Age-standardised rates. Reference population is the 30 June 1991 Australian population.; HIC 1995; AIHW

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Appendix 1 - Statistical tables - Part D

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