Opinion on whether increased food intake or decreased energy expenditure drives the obesity epidemic is still divided, but recent evidence favours the idea that food intake, rather than altered expenditure, is most important.
Federal corrections expenditures, driven by new federal drug-sentencing changes, went from five hundred and forty-one million dollars in 1982 to more than $6.9 billion in 2006, and state corrections expenditures that year totalled more than forty-one billion dollars.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a highly prevalent condition associated with a high health care resource consumption and health care expenditures, driven mainly by exacerbations-related hospitalizations.
First, since shares of GDP not only reflect expenditures but income, it is true not only to say that national income drives health expenditures, but also that health expenditures drive national income growth.
Some studious people in ivory towers think such expenditures drive up the cost of medications, but PhRMA, the pharmaceutical lobbying group, says that's simply not true.
From broadly accepted physiological principles, simple algorithms specify how energy acquisition and expenditure drive life cycle processes.
Arguably, more research in this direction is needed, especially to detect what component of expenditure drives mostly the impact on the Okun's coefficient.
According to the results, the level of expenditure is driven mainly by the level of education and income.
Given that rates of surgical interventions are increasing, it is fair to consider that at least a proportion of these rises in healthcare expenditure are driven by surgery.
Most of the indirect migraine expenditures were driven by absenteeism.
The red herring hypothesis states that health care expenditures are driven by time to death, not age per se [ 3].
