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.
How the health system is funded. Health is an expensive business: in 2011-12, health expenditure in Australia was estimated at $140.2 billion, or 9.5% of gross domestic product (GDP), compared with $82.9 billion in 2001-02 and $132.6 billion in 2010-11 (AIHW 2013b).his is largely due to the fact that health care expenditure is generally higher in the older age groups. In 2008-09, expenditure in Australia on adults aged 85 and over was almost 20 times as high per person as expenditure on children aged 5 to 14 (Figure 2.10).