the countries with above and below average cuts in health care expenditure growth are listed in the table below for example for general mortality a increase in unemployment in countries with high cuts in health expenditure is associated with a fall in mortality the results show whether the relationship between unemployment and a given health outcome is different in countries with modest health expenditure cuts compared to those with high cuts all outcome variables reported in table were d were estimated using this model but only in six cases were results found to be statistically significant