Table of contents

  • Preliminary material (61KB PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables and figures
    • Preface
    • Abbreviations and Symbols
  • Sections
    1. Background and summary (425K PDF)
      • Background
      • The structure of the health sector and its flow of funds
      • Summary of findings
      • Revisions to ABS estimates
    2. Total health expenditure (85K PDF)
      • Health expenditure and the general level of economic activity
      • Health expenditure per person
      • Total health expenditure, by state and territory
      • Sources of growth in health expenditure
    3. Funding of health expenditure in Australia (126K PDF)
      • Broad trends
        • Recurrent funding of health
      • Government sources of funds
      • Non-government funding sources
    4. Health expenditure and funding, by area of health expenditure (119K PDF)
      • Recurrent expenditure on health goods and services
        • Institutional health services
        • Non-institutional health services
      • Capital formation
      • Capital consumption by governments
    5. International comparison (64K PDF)
    6. Technical notes (93K PDF)
      • Methods used to produce estimates
        • State and territory expenditure tables
        • Expenditure by the Australian Government
        • Expenditure by state and local government authorities
      • Definitions, sources and notes
        • General
        • Definition of health expenditure
      • Deflators
      • Revisions of definitions and estimates
        • Definitions
        • Estimates
  • End Matter
    • Appendix A: National health expenditure matrices, 1998-99 to 2000-01 (81K PDF)
      • Notes to Appendix A tables
    • Appendix B: State and territory health expenditure matrices, 1998-99 to 2000-01 (164K PDF)
      • Notes for Appendix B tables
  • References (33K PDF)