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Factor Analysis Of China's Poor Rural Areas The Impact Of Women's Reproductive Health

Posted on:2004-10-01Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:M T GaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:1114360122472039Subject:Political economy
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The person's living had the improvement since China practiced to economic reform. But there are about 50 millions the poor in China rural area .Poor not only means shortage of the material (with appropriate income or consumer concepts to measure to calculate), but also means being lack of education and healthcare. In economics, education and health are juxtaposed the twin concept of the human capital frame. The health status is not good will affect the study ability of the work directly, but the poor is again influence the health badly. So the poor health Status is a Poor's reason and vice verse. To the poor in rural area, the health of the women and infants should be paid more attention particularly.To improve women and children's health.. The World Health Organization puts forward the concept of the Reproductive Health. A developing country that wants to attain sustainable development needs to improve its citizen's Reproductive Health. The two databases employed by the author respectively is National population and reproductive health investigation in 1997 and Chinese Children Health status investigation in 1992. The primarily reason for using these two samples is that they are the highest authority and most exhaustive up to now domestically. The econometrics methods are employed to analyze the impacts on reproductive health and the demands to the demands for maternity and infant healthcare services. It analyses the health risk management institution by means of the descriptive statistics methods and qualitative analysis methods.It is difficult to measure the health status, By means of MIMIC model, the 9 measurement indicators are polarized into 2 measurement indexes. Then it use structure model to identify the women health production function with regard two indexes as dependent variables in the simultaneous equations. The regression result reveals the facts that increase women health risk, including the following factors: (1) Low-level education and lacking healthcare knowledge ; (2) These women living in a mountainous area have higher reproductive health risk. Furthermore, in foundation at the reproductive health index construction, the impacts on healthcare demand are analyzed by means of LOGISTICS regression models and non-parameter econometric methods. Then to establish the Leontief- Diewert production functions of the general form analyze the impacts of neonatal baby's health. The estimation results reveal that the mother's prenatal health care and birth prenatal health care have significant influence on neonatal babies' health, but the poor women has the lowest utilization of the healthcare.The policy implications derived from empirical study includes: 1) the increase of finance investment on primary healthcare; 2) from the economic theories, the directions of the investment should been located in public goods and poverty alleviation programs; 3) To use geographic targeting to areas where the poor are concentrated and programs targeting to health services that particularly benefit to the poor women and children.
Keywords/Search Tags:Reproductive
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