Health
How Health spent its budget in fiscal year 2017-18, shown as net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II.
Department Spending
In FY 2017-18,
$5.94B
was spent by Health
In FY 2017-18,
1.8%
of federal spending was by Health
On the consolidated accrual basis (Volume I), this portfolio’s expenses were $3.71B in FY 2017-18 — see the overview and methodology.
How did Health spend its budget in 2017-18?
Spending by entity, FY 2017-18
Department of Health
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Public Health Agency of Canada
Patented Medicine Prices Review Board
$3.49B
$1.1B
$739M
$607.1M
$9.7M
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 | $911,875,155 |
| Contributions | Contributions for First Nations and Inuit Primary Health Care | $607,762,078 |
| Contributions | Contributions for First Nations and Inuit Health Infrastructure Support | $571,624,276 |
| Contributions | Contributions for First Nations and Inuit Supplementary Health Benefits | $142,170,853 |
| 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 | $81,821,038 |
| Contributions | Contribution to the Canadian Institute for Health Information | $81,748,979 |
| 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 | $56,681,545 |
| Contributions | Contribution to Canada Health Infoway | $47,000,000 |
| 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 | $44,118,458 |
| Contributions | Contribution to the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer | $39,854,241 |
| Grants | Canada First Research Excellence Fund | $34,646,332 |
| Contributions | Official Languages Health Contribution Program | $33,800,001 |
| Grants | Grant to Ontario to enhance the capacity of the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance | $30,000,000 |
| Contributions | Contribution in support of the Federal Initiative on HIV/AIDS | $29,069,527 |
| Grants | Territorial Health Investment Fund | $27,000,000 |
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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.
