Data are presented describing expenditures for personal health services in Michigan from 1977 to 1981. The rapid growth in expenditures is illustrated, as well as the rates of growth in expenditures, for major categories of health services. Personal health expenditures are defined as payments for care directly provided to patients: specifically, hospital and nursing home services, physician and dental services, services provided by other professionals, drugs, eyeglasses and appliances, and other patient-care services. These expenditures are further defined by their being paid for by private health insurance programs, Medicare and Medicaid, and individual spending. Excluded from this report are expenditures for public and environmental health services, administration of health insurance programs, and health-related research and educational activities. Appendices include: (1) methodology for estimating personal health expenditures; (2) definition and methodology used by health care financing administration to estimate state personal health expenditures; and (3) demographic and economic adjustments. (JD)