health expenditure meaning

• [Medicine]
  The amounts spent by individuals,groups,nations,or private or public organizations for total health care and/or its various components. These amounts may or may not be equivalent to the actual costs (HEALTH CARE COSTS) and may or may not be shared among the patient,insurers,and/or employers.

• expenditure:    Noun: expenditure& ...
• autonomous expenditure:    [Finance]A macroec ...
• capital expenditure:    Noun: capital expe ...

Examples

1. progress of national health expenditure study and thinking
2. research on total health expenditure by function in china
3. a report of the calculation of total health expenditure
4. an analysis on the increase of national health expenditures in china
5. a research on total health expenditure by function in anhui province