Health
How Health spent its budget in fiscal year 2016-17, shown as net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II.
Department Spending
In FY 2016-17,
$6.59B
was spent by Health
In FY 2016-17,
2.1%
of federal spending was by Health
How did Health spend its budget in 2016-17?
Spending by entity, FY 2016-17
Department of Health
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Public Health Agency of Canada
Patented Medicine Prices Review Board
$4.15B
$1.08B
$785.9M
$559.2M
$10.1M
Health’s share of federal spending
Percentage of federal spending, 1995–2025
Line items
Every transfer-payment (grant and contribution) program, in dollars. These are the named programs behind the transfer-payments object in the chart above. Search, sort, and download the full table.
| Category | Description | Amount ▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Grants | Grants for research projects and personnel support | $910,868,003 |
| Contributions | Contributions for First Nations and Inuit Health Infrastructure Support | $752,135,571 |
| Contributions | Contributions for First Nations and Inuit Primary Health Care | $694,651,345 |
| Contributions | Contributions for First Nations and Inuit Supplementary Health Benefits | $210,429,939 |
| Contributions | Contributions to non-profit organizations to support, on a long-term basis, the development and provision of preventative and early intervention services aimed at addressing the health and developmental problems experienced by young children at risk in Canada | $81,225,731 |
| Contributions | Contribution to the Canadian Institute for Health Information | $78,863,979 |
| Contributions | Contribution to the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer | $47,500,000 |
| Contributions | Contributions to individuals and organizations to support health promotion projects in the areas of building community capacity, stimulating knowledge development and dissemination, and partnership building/intersectoral collaboration | $44,338,988 |
| Contributions | Compensation payments in accordance with established by Regulations under the Health of Animals Act and the Plant Protection Act, and authorized pursuant to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency Act | $40,867,951 |
| Grants | Grant to Canada Health Infoway Inc. to accelerate the development of electronic health records, common information technology standards accross the country, and the further applications of tele-health applications | $37,877,924 |
| Contributions | Official Languages Health Contribution Program | $36,400,000 |
| Contributions | Contributions to incorporated local or regional non-profit Aboriginal organizations and institutions for the purpose of developing early intervention programs for Aboriginal pre-school children and their families | $32,479,550 |
| Grants | Canada First Research Excellence Fund | $25,489,387 |
| Contributions | Canada Brain Research Fund to Advance Knowledge for the Treatment of Brain Disorders | $24,992,085 |
| Contributions | Contribution in support of the Federal Initiative on HIV/AIDS | $23,048,615 |
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Health figures are net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II, and will not match the Volume I consolidated headline totals. See the methodology for details.
