Health expenditure in Australia in 2007-08 reached $104 billion. As a percentage of GDP it was 9.1%, the same level as in 2006-07. The area of health expenditure showing the highest growth was public health expenditure which grew by 21% in real terms, mostly due to extra spending on immunisation. Health expenditure Australia 2007-08 examines expenditure on different types of health goods and services in the decade to 2007-08. The report describes funding by the Australian and State governments; private health insurance and individuals; compares health expenditures in the different states and territories; and compares Australia's spending with other countries.
Authored by AIHW.
Published 30 September 2009; ISSN 1323-5850; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 963 8; AIHW cat. no. HWE 46; 192pp.; $35.00
The current version of the publication is presented above. Previous versions
of files that have been updated or corrected are presented below.
Appendix tables C2 and C3 have been updated. Corrections have been made to
the Australian Government premium rebates for other health practitioners.
These rebates that were previously allocated across all three other health
practitioner categories, have now been all allocated to the non-Medicare
category. Appendix table D1 has been updated to include footnote (d) which was
previously missing. (27 November 2009)
