Technological Innovation and Public Health: A Descriptive Exploratory Investigation of Relationship between Technological Innovation Indicators and Public Health Indicators in the United States from 2

Technological innovation and public health are vital for prosperity. This study quantitatively explored and described the relationship between these constructs. Indicators representing technological innovation and public health were identified. Data associated with the indicators were collected from various U.S. federal governmental sources for the four U.S. Census regions. The four U.S. Census regions were then compared in terms of the indicators. Power law regression equations were developed for each combination of technological innovation and public health indicators. Additionally, the relationship between technological innovation and public health was described using the structural equation modeling - SEM - technique. It was found that the four regions ranked differently in terms of both technological innovation indicators and public health indicators. The results of the study showed that better technological innovation indictor scores were associated with better public health indicator scores. Results of the SEM provided preliminary evidence that technological innovation shares causal relation with public health.