Preventative Health: How Much Does Australia Spend and is it Enough

The report, Preventativehealth: How much does Australia spend and is it enough?, found that Australia compared poorly with OECD peers in terms of spending on prevention, at about $2 billion per year or $89 per capita. Chronic disease is responsible for 83 per cent of all premature deaths in Australia and 66 per cent of the burden of disease, making it our nation’s greatest health challenge.

Preventive health: How much does Australia spend and is it enough? by Hannah Jackson and Alan Shiell / Department of Public Health, La Trobe University and the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.