Program · Outcome 1: Better equip Australia to meet current and future health needs of all Australians through the delivery of evidence-based health policies; improved access to comprehensive and coordinated health care; ensuring sustainable funding for health services, research and technologies; and protecting the health and safety of the Australian community
Program 1.5: Preventive Health and Chronic Disease Support
Support health and wellbeing through providing access to cancer screening programs and undertaking activities to reduce rates of harmful alcohol consumption and illicit drug use. Undertake activities to promote smoking and e-cigarette cessation and prevent uptake and encourage healthy lifestyles.
Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 74 reported
+$97m (+11.2%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary annual services | administered | $863m | $960m | +$97m +11.2% | reported | 2.1.1 Outcome 1, row 699 |