Determinants of Life Expectancy in Eastern Mediterranean Region: A Health Production Function
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Background Determinants of health or health production function in health economics literature constitute noticeable issues in health promotion. This study aimed at estimating a health production function for East Mediterranean Region (EMR) based on the Grossman theoretical model. Methods This ecological study was performed using the econometric methods. The panel data model was used in order to determine the relationship between life expectancy and socioeconomic factors. The data for 21 EMR countries between 1995 and 2007 were used. Fixed-effect-model was employed to estimate the parameters based on Hausman test. Results In estimating the health production function, factors such as income per capita (β=0.05, P
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عنوان ژورنال
دوره 1 شماره 1
صفحات 57- 61
تاریخ انتشار 2013-05-22
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