Table of contents

  • 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