Department of Health (Western Australia)

The Department of Health is a Western Australian government department responsible for regulating and advancing health within the state. It manages a system of multiple Health Service Providers (HSPs) which make up Western Australia's public health system, and is collectively referred to as WA Health. WA Health covers a state which spans over 2.5 million square kilometres, making it the world's largest single health authority by area.

The Public Health Department of Western Australia operated between 1911 and 1984.^[1] It merged with Mental Health Services and the Department of Hospital and Allied Services in July 1984, to become the Health Department of Western Australia.^[2] In September 2001, it was renamed to the Department of Health.^[3]

• Medical Department, 1 January 1850 – 1 October 1906
• Central Board of Health, 17 November 1886 – 31 May 1911
• Public Health Department of Western Australia, 1 June 1911 – 30 June 1984
• Department of Hospital and Allied Services, 30 April 1981 – 30 June 1984

• List of hospitals in Western Australia

• Western Australia. Public Health Dept (1979), A history of the State Health Laboratory Services : 1903-1978, Public Health Dept., W.A, ISBN 978-0-7244-8134-7
• Briscoe, Gordon; Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (2003), Counting, health and identity : a history of Aboriginal health and demography in Western Australia and Queensland, 1900-1940, Acoriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, ISBN 978-0-85575-447-1

• Official website