❓ A parliamentary question seeks detailed information on state government funding for preventative health programs, but the response indicates that expenditure is not tracked on a disease-specific basis, limiting the level of detail provided.
AnsweredQoN 2454Legislative Assembly
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(1) What amount of State Government funding was spent on preventative health programmes over each of the past five financial years?
(2) Which specific illnesses, diseases or disorders were the subject of these preventative health programmes?
(3) How much was spent on each programme in (2) in each of the last five financial years?
(2) Which specific illnesses, diseases or disorders were the subject of these preventative health programmes?
(3) How much was spent on each programme in (2) in each of the last five financial years?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
1 April 2004
Responded by
Minister for Health
Response time
30 days
The 2001/02 and 2002/03 amounts exclude expenditure associated with the WA Health Promotion Foundation, which is now administered through the Department of Treasury and Finance. Preventative work is also carried out within the Health Services. (2) Prevention and Promotion programs seek to prevent a broad range of communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases and disorders across the State. These are delivered through the Population Health Division, Drug and Alcohol Office and Metropolitan and Rural Health Services. Population Health Directorates include Environmental Health, Communicable Disease Control, Health Promotion, Aboriginal Health, Health Information, Community and Child Health, Genomics and Breast and Cervical Screening. There are approximately 40 programs in the Population Health Division. (3) Expenditure is not captured on a disease and illness specific basis and therefore is unavailable. For example Health Promotion programs cover a range of risk factors and illnesses which means expenditure by disease is not captured. The figures provided in (1) do however provide details on the direct investment by the DOH in preventing disease in Western Australia.
(2) Prevention and Promotion programs seek to prevent a broad range of communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases and disorders across the State. These are delivered through the Population Health Division, Drug and Alcohol Office and Metropolitan and Rural Health Services. Population Health Directorates include Environmental Health, Communicable Disease Control, Health Promotion, Aboriginal Health, Health Information, Community and Child Health, Genomics and Breast and Cervical Screening. There are approximately 40 programs in the Population Health Division. (3) Expenditure is not captured on a disease and illness specific basis and therefore is unavailable. For example Health Promotion programs cover a range of risk factors and illnesses which means expenditure by disease is not captured. The figures provided in (1) do however provide details on the direct investment by the DOH in preventing disease in Western Australia.
(3) Expenditure is not captured on a disease and illness specific basis and therefore is unavailable. For example Health Promotion programs cover a range of risk factors and illnesses which means expenditure by disease is not captured. The figures provided in (1) do however provide details on the direct investment by the DOH in preventing disease in Western Australia.
(2) Prevention and Promotion programs seek to prevent a broad range of communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases and disorders across the State. These are delivered through the Population Health Division, Drug and Alcohol Office and Metropolitan and Rural Health Services. Population Health Directorates include Environmental Health, Communicable Disease Control, Health Promotion, Aboriginal Health, Health Information, Community and Child Health, Genomics and Breast and Cervical Screening. There are approximately 40 programs in the Population Health Division. (3) Expenditure is not captured on a disease and illness specific basis and therefore is unavailable. For example Health Promotion programs cover a range of risk factors and illnesses which means expenditure by disease is not captured. The figures provided in (1) do however provide details on the direct investment by the DOH in preventing disease in Western Australia.
(3) Expenditure is not captured on a disease and illness specific basis and therefore is unavailable. For example Health Promotion programs cover a range of risk factors and illnesses which means expenditure by disease is not captured. The figures provided in (1) do however provide details on the direct investment by the DOH in preventing disease in Western Australia.
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