Australian National Health and Welfare Accounts

Concepts and data sources

Full publication (621K PDF)

• Preliminary material (58K PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • List of  figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
• Chapters
  1. History of health and welfare services expenditure data development in Australia (62K PDF)
     • Health expenditure data development
       • Early development of the Australian health expenditure matrix
       • Commonwealth Department of health
       • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
     • Welfare services expenditure data development
  2. A conceptual framework for the national health and welfare services accounts (235K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • The national accounts
       • Gross domestic product (GDP)
       • Production boundaries
       • Sector classification
       • Purpose, industry and goods and services classifications
       • Financing classifications
       • The problem of output valuation
       • Tax expenditures
       • GDP and welfare
     • Satellite accounts
       • Rearrangement of main accounts information
       • Extension of main accounts information
       • Revaluation of main accounts information
  3. Australia's approach to national health and welfare services accounts - OECD classification systems (126K PDF)
     • System of Health Accounts
     • Social expenditures (SOCX) database
     • Conclusions
  4. Data sources (369K PDF)
     • Framework for reporting health and welfare services expenditure
     • Health expenditure data sources
     • Government funding
       • Commonwealth Government
       • State and territory governments
       • Local governments
     • Non-government funding
       • Health insurance funds
       • Individuals
       • Other
     • Data sources for particular types of health expenditure
       • Public (non-psychiatric) hospitals
       • Private hospitals
       • Public (psychiatric) hospitals
       • High-level residential aged care
       • Ambulance services
       • Medical services
       • Dental services
       • Other professional services
       • Health promotion and illness prevention
     • Welfare services expenditure data sources
       • Government funding
       • Non-government funding
       • Tax expenditures

• End matter (120K PDF)
  • Appendix
  • Abbreviations
  • Glossary
  • References

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