Health expenditure Australia 2007-08

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Release Date: 30 Sep 2009

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2009) Health expenditure Australia 2007-08, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 06 December 2023.

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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.

ISSN: 1323-5850
ISBN: 978 1 74024 963 8
Cat. no: HWE 46
Pages: 192

Preliminary material (232KB PDF)
- Title and verso pages
- Foreword
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Symbols
- Summary
Body section
1. Background (161KB PDF)
  1. The structure of the health sector and its flow of funds
  2. Changes to AIHW estimates
  3. Revisions to ABS estimates
  4. Structure of report
2. Total health expenditure (193KB PDF) (76KB XLS tables)
  1. Sources of nominal change in health expenditure
  2. Health expenditure and the GDP
    - Differential growth in health expenditure and GDP
    - Health inflation
  3. Health expenditure per person
  4. Recurrent health expenditure
    - Recurrent expenditure, by state and territory
3. Funding of health expenditure (232KB PDF) (102KB XLS tables)
  1. Broad trends
  2. Australian Government funding
    - The Department of Veterans’ Affairs
    - Grants to states and territories
    - Rebates of private health insurance contributions
    - Australian Government funding of its own expenditures
    - Non-specific tax expenditure
  3. State and territory governments and local government authorities
  4. Non-government funding
    - Individuals
    - Private health insurance
    - Injury compensation insurers
4. Health expenditure and funding, by area of health expenditure (283KB PDF) (104KB XLS tables)
  1. Recurrent expenditure
  2. Capital expenditure
  3. Non-specific tax expenditures
5. International comparisons (195KB PDF) (63KB XLS tables)
  1. Health expenditure in OECD countries
  2. Health expenditure in the Asia-Pacific region
  3. Australian health expenditure using the OECD system of health accounts framework
6. Technical notes (193KB PDF) (18KB XLS tables)
  1. General
    - Health Expenditure Advisory Committee (HEAC)
  2. Definition of health expenditure
  3. Data and methods used to produce estimates
    - General
    - State and territory expenditure tables
    - State government contracting of private hospital services
    - Allocation of Australian Government expenditures by states and territories
    - Expenditure by state and territory governments
    - Funding by the non-government sector
    - Health insurance funds
    - Private health insurance premium rebates
    - Individuals
    - Other non-government sources
    - Blank cells in expenditure tables
  4. Changes in data sources and methodologies used in this report
  5. Revision of estimates
End matter (447KB PDF)
- Appendixes
- Glossary
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of boxes

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