Military expenditure remains an important source of income.
As expected, we find that industrial R&D expenditure plays an important role in promoting regional firm birth.
This conforms with findings of other studies that health expenditure is an important determinant of health outcomes both at the individual and national levels [22, 26, 27].
The major findings of this study were that health expenditure plays an important role in enhancing the general wellbeing of individuals due to a greater share of individual consumption and overall productivity.
The results showed strong evidence that per capita health expenditure is an important factor in determining health outcomes.
Yet if aquatic wading is invoked as influential in the evolution of bipedalism, an argument can still be made that energy expenditure was an important selection factor.
Out-of-pocket expenditure remains an important feature of health care financing in Uganda despite blanket abolition of user fees in government facilities.
Published studies have shown that out-of-pocket medical expenditure was an important factor for poverty in many Asian countries [ 16].
Hence, in rural China, particularly in the poorest regions with annual income of no more than RMB1500/$240.2 per capita, medical expenditure is an important cause of transient poverty [ 13].
Increasing health expenditures has been an important problem around the globe. 1 2 In Thailand, total health expenditures were 367 767 million Baht in 2008, an increase from 127 655 million Baht in 1994.
Therefore, while examining the role of medical technology in rising health expenditures is indeed an important area of inquiry, it is largely an incomplete exercise, due to some of the noted methodological issues, and also because most new technological innovations are cost-increasing.
