During 2011-12, Australia's 753 public hospitals accounted for about 68% of hospital beds, according to this detailed overview of Australia's public and private hospitals. Expenditure and funding Public hospitals spent over $40 billion in 2011-12. Adjusted for inflation, expenditure increased by an average of 5.9% each year between 2007-08 and 2011-12. Emergency department services Between...

Australian Social Trends (AST) is an Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) flagship publication presenting a picture of Australian society through a selection of articles. The articles aim to address current and on-going social concerns, and focus on population groups of interest and changes over time. Each tells a story and provides a sense of the...

The purpose of health and medical research (HMR) is to achieve better health for all Australians. Better health encompasses increased life expectancy, as well as social goals such as equity, affordability and quality of life. HMR investment supports innovation in Australia's $135bn p.a. health sector and is vital for delivering health outcomes, creating national wealth...

This project aims to provide a better understanding of the circumstances of young people who receive transfer payments to support them in providing ‘informal’ care to people with disabilities and the frail aged. The main focus is on the 20,363 young people who were aged under 25 years at some point between September 2001 and...

This report presents estimates of health expenditure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their non-Indigenous counterparts for 2010-11. The reports are produced every 2 years. This is the seventh report in the series. In 2010-11, health expenditure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was estimated at $4,552 million, or 3.7% of Australia's...