Health expenditure report

This report is the third in the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's disease expenditure series and provides a systematic analysis of Australian health expenditure in 2004-05, allocated by disease. Disease and injury groups are defined as in the second Australian Burden of Disease (BoD) study. Over two thirds (70%) of total recurrent health expenditure was able to be allocated by disease, or $52.7 billion in total.
That expenditure was for admitted patient hospital services, out-of-hospital medical services, dental services, optometrical services, prescription pharmaceuticals, community mental health services, public health cancer screening services and research.
Oral health - listed at number two in the top seven disease groups - accounted for $5.3 billion (10%) of the expenditure.