How contagious is meningitis? In short, most bacterial meningitis infections are mildly to moderately contagious person to person, while some viral meningitis are contagious but other types are not. Fungal, parasitic, and noninfectious causes of meningitis are not contagious from one person directly to another.
Health Care Funding. Health care in Canada is funded at both the provincial and federal levels. The financing of health care is provided via taxation both from personal and corporate income taxes. Additional funds from other financial sources like sales tax and lottery proceeds are also used by some provinces.
In general terms, the state and territory governments and the Australian Government provide most of the funds for public hospitals (Figure 9) (AIHW 2010). The proportion of funding that was from the Australian Government declined between 2004â05 and 2006â07, then increased in 2007â08 (Figure 11). Private health insurance and out-of-pocket payments by patients mainly fund private hospitals (Figure 10).