Increases of Health Care Expenditures and Economic Growth

―Access, Technological Changes and Aging―

Abstract

The long term trend of the health care expenditures of Japan is analised in terms of ①analysis of the chronological change of the factors of increase, particularly with the attention to (a) increase of accesibility, (b) technological innovation, (c) change of population structure, and ②corelation with economic growth. Based on these analyses, future prospests of Japanese health care expenditures and policies to be taken are presented.