The AIHW Disease expenditure database now includes ‘well care’.
Well care includes the following 7 sub-categories:
- well person (includes expenditure for services that are typically routine examinations, general examinations without specific complaints or diagnoses, or administrative in nature)
- well dental (includes routine checkups and cleaning)
- pregnancy and postpartum care
- family planning
- counselling services
- social services (includes problems related to housing and economic circumstances, social environment, support groups)
- donor
In 2022–23 $13.3 billion was spent on well care (8% of total spending). This was up from $12.6 billion in 2021–22.
The two components of well care that account for the majority of the spending are well dental ($6.3 billion) and pregnancy and postpartum care ($4.7 billion). In 2022–23, these two sub-components accounted for $10.9 billion (82% of well care). Note: In earlier editions of AIHW disease expenditure reports, pregnancy and postpartum care was included in reproductive and maternal conditions.
The following interactive data visualisation (Figure 16) shows spending on well care for each of the seven sub-categories for 2013–14 to 2022–23. Data used to create the visualisation is available to download from the data tables.
