Public health expenditure in Australia 2006-07

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Health and welfare expenditure series no. 34

This publication reports estimates of expenditure on public health activities in Australia that were funded by the Australian Government and state and territory health departments during 2006-07. Public health expenditure in Australia 2006-07 continues the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's series of reports on national public health expenditure, which have been produced annually since 1999-00.

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Published 3 September 2008; ISSN 1323-5850; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 804 4; AIHW cat. no. HWE 41; INTERNET ONLY

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  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments and authorship
    • Abbreviations and symbols
    • Summary
  • Sections
    1. Introduction
      • Background
      • What is public health?
      • Public health funding and expenditure
    2. Government funding of public health activities
      • SPPs to state and territory governments
    3. Government expenditure on public health activities
      • Public health expenditure per person
      • Average public health expenditure per person in each state and territory
      • Public health expenditure as a proportion of total recurrent health expenditure
    4. Growth in expenditure on public health activities
  • End matter
    • Appendix: technical notes
      • Definition of public health activities
      • Jurisdictions' technical notes
      • Method for allocating direct expenditure by the Australian Government to states and territories
      • Deflators
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • List of boxes

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