Health
How Health spent its budget in fiscal year 2018-19, shown as net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II.
Department Spending
In FY 2018-19,
$5B
was spent by Health
In FY 2018-19,
1.4%
of federal spending was by Health
How did Health spend its budget in 2018-19?
Spending by entity, FY 2018-19
Department of Health
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Public Health Agency of Canada
Patented Medicine Prices Review Board
$2.37B
$1.15B
$792.3M
$675.4M
$10.3M
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 | $958,291,539 |
| Other transfer payment | Strengthening Canada's Home and Community Care and Mental Health and Addiction Initiative | $849,119,329 |
| Contributions | Payments to provinces and territories for the purpose of emergency treatment funding | $150,000,002 |
| Contributions | Contribution to the Canadian Institute for Health Information | $83,948,979 |
| 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 | $81,109,715 |
| Grants | Grant to support a Healthy Seniors Pilot Project in New Brunswick | $75,000,000 |
| 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 | $70,746,507 |
| Contributions | Contribution to Canada Health Infoway | $49,844,676 |
| Grants | Canada First Research Excellence Fund | $43,803,273 |
| Contributions | Contribution to the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer | $42,971,939 |
| Contributions | Official Languages Health Contribution Program | $36,100,000 |
| 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 | $35,107,539 |
| Grants | Territorial Health Investment Fund | $27,000,000 |
| Contributions | Substance Use and Addictions Program | $26,938,461 |
| Contributions | Canada Brain Research Fund Program | $23,500,000 |
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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.
