Aboriginal health expenditure report

Expenditure on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2006-07 has just been published by the AIHW.

Expenditure on health and high care residential aged care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people amounted to $2,953 million in 2006-07, or 3% of national expenditure on health and high care residential aged care. The average expenditure per person on health and high care residential aged care was $5,650 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. For non-Indigenous people, the average expenditure per person was $4,621.