Expenditures on Health Services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People 1998-99

Full publication (743K PDF; 221K XLS)

• Preliminary material (84K PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Executive summary (45K PDF)
• Sections
  1. Overview (105K PDF)
     • Total expenditure
     • Total expenditure by administrative responsibility
     • Sources of funds
     • Expenditure by type of service
     • Selected expenditure by jurisdiction
     • Regional variation
     • Expenditure on primary, secondary and tertiary services
     • Comparisons with the first report
  2. Background (63K PDF)
     • Terms of reference
     • Demographic information
     • Health status and the assessment of need
     • Socio-economic analysis
     • Limitations
  3. Commonwealth expenditure on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services (124K PDF)
     • Data sources
     • Commonwealth programs
     • Summary
     • Comparison of 1995-96 and 1998-99 Commonwealth expenditure
  4. Hospital admissions and expenditure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients (119K PDF)
     • Estimating the under-identification of Aboriginality in hospital records
     • Overview of hospital costing
  5. State and Territory health services expenditure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (99K PDF)
     • Background information
     • New South Wales
     • Victoria
     • Queensland
     • Western Australia
     • South Australia
     • Tasmania
     • Australian Capital Territory
     • Northern Territory
     • Australia
     • Summary
  6. Total expenditure (68K PDF)
     • Private and local government expenditure
     • Total expenditure
     • Sources of funding
     • Changes in health expenditure from 1995-96 to 1998-99
  7. Analysis of regional health expenditure (126K PDF)
     • Regional population and mortality data
     • Expenditure on admitted patient services
     • Expenditure on medical services and pharmaceuticals
     • OATSIH funding by region
     • Commonwealth expenditure on high-care residential aged care by ARIA
     • Summary
  8. Recommendations for methodology/data enhancement (55K PDF)
     • Primary health care estimates
     • Hospital data
     • Community and public health
     • Mortality data
     • Extent of data needs and implementation
     • Summary and conclusion
• Appendixes
  • Appendix 1: Scope of report (85K PDF)
  • Appendix 2: Methodology for the calculation of regional and non-regional population estimates (96K PDF)
  • Appendix 3: Estimation of Commonwealth outlays on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (122K PDF)
  • Appendix 4: Aged care services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (57K PDF)
  • Appendix 5: Hospital morbidity costing method and under-identification studies (101K PDF)
  • Appendix 6: Methodology for estimating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander expenditure through State and Territory programs (110K PDF)
  • Appendix 7: 1995-96 results (65K PDF)
  • Appendix 8: BEACH survey forms (electronic forms not available)
  • Appendix 9: List of tables (50K PDF)
  • Appendix 10: List of figures (21K PDF)
  • Appendix 11: Abbreviations, glossary and symbols (42K PDF)
  • Appendix 12: Steering Committee (22K PDF)
  • References (26K PDF)

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