Health expenditure Australia 2017–18
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Topic: Health & welfare expenditure
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2019) Health expenditure Australia 2017–18, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 04 December 2023. doi:10.25816/5ec5ba12ed174
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2019). Health expenditure Australia 2017–18. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Health expenditure Australia 2017–18. AIHW, 2019.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Health expenditure Australia 2017–18. Canberra: AIHW; 2019.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2019, Health expenditure Australia 2017–18, AIHW, Canberra.
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Regular reporting of national health expenditure is vital to understanding the health system and its relationship to the economy as whole. In 2017–18:
- Total health spending was $185.4 billion, equating to $7,485 per person
- Health spending increased by 1.2%, which was lower than the decade average of 3.9%.
- The majority of health spending went on hospitals (40%) and primary health care (34%).
- Health spending accounted for 10% of overall economic activity.
- ISSN: 2205-6610 (Online)
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-616-8 (Online)
- DOI: 10.25816/5ec5ba12ed174
- Cat. no: HWE 77
- Pages: 66
Findings from this report:
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Total health expenditure in 2017–18 was $185.4 billion, a real increase of 1.2% over the year
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Expenditure per person decreased by 0.4% to $7,485, the lowest yearly growth over the decade
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Spending on hospitals was $74.0 billion, an increase of $3.2 billion since 2016–17
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Private health insurers spent on average $1,470 per person covered by a private health insurance policy