{"id":987524318,"date":"2021-12-26T03:34:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T02:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/australian-government-health-spending-increased-by-5-6-in-the-first-year-of-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:45:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:45:32","slug":"australian-government-health-spending-increased-by-5-6-in-the-first-year-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/australian-government-health-spending-increased-by-5-6-in-the-first-year-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Government health spending increased by 5.6 % in the first year of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Australia, healthcare expenditure for Fiscal Year 2019-20 follows an upwards trajectory. As reported in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aihw.gov.au\/reports\/health-welfare-expenditure\/health-expenditure-australia-2019-20\/contents\/about\">Health Expenditure Australia 2019\u201320<\/a>, government health spending increased by 5.6% due to COVID-19 pandemic surveillance programs, while non-governmental health spending decreased by 5.2% due to the dampening effect on usual health system services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>To know more, read a full news article originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aihw.gov.au\/news-media\/media-releases\/2021-1\/december\/health-expenditure-header\">the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Have anything to say about Australia\u2019s health financing and social health protection? Please leave your comments below.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Photo by&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/p\/gettyimages\/\">dondesigns<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Australia, healthcare expenditure for Fiscal Year 2019-20 follows an upwards trajectory. As reported in Health Expenditure Australia 2019\u201320, government health spending increased by 5.6% due to COVID-19 pandemic surveillance programs, while non-governmental health spending decreased by 5.2% due to the dampening effect on usual health system services.&nbsp; To know more, read a full news&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987528159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987528159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}