2. Need Improvement in Healthcare Via Demand Side Financing in Pakistan
1. Qatadah Idrees 2. Rab Nawaz Lodhi 3. Kiran Farooq 4. Saad Nisar
1.M. Phil Student, 2,3. Lecturers 4. M. Phil Student, Institute of Business Management, UET, Lahore
ABSTRACT
Objective: To see the effect of maternal mortality rate and life expectancy on the death rate via demand side financing intervention in Pakistan.
Study Design: Time Series Experimental Study.
Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in IBM, UET,Lahore during August to September, 2015.
Materials and Methods: This was a time series experimental study where time series data from World Bank Indicators (WBI) from 2000 to 2013 was used to see the effect of maternal mortality rate and life expectancy on the death rate. Dependent variable is death rate in the country and independent variables are maternal mortality rate and life expectancy of the country of Pakistan. I have applied regression through Eviews software to see the effect and results are significant.
Results: There is a positive significant effect of MMR on the death rate and negative significant effect of LE on the death rate. MMR has significant positive impact on the death rate its P value is .0004 and Life expectancy has negative significant impact on the death rate its P value is .0000.There is no multicollinearity as Durbin Watson value is 1.785 which is near 2.There is no heteroscedasticity as R-Squared value is .99 almost 1.
Conclusion: It is essential to decrease the death rate by providing healthcare facilities; although government allocate budget to healthcare and trying to facilitate especially poor via providing free medicines and many other healthcare incentives (Primary and Secondary healthcare) which somehow affect the death rate. However healthcare needs more funds to increase the usage of accessible and timely healthcare facilities to people. This can be possible via acquiring fund to facilitate poor through a proper system i.e Demand side financing.
Key Words: LE (Life Expectancy), MMR (Maternal Mortal ty Rate), Healthcare Financing.
Citation of article: Idrees Q, Lodhi RN, Farooq K, N sar S. Need Improvement in Healthcare Via Demand Side Financing in Pakistan. Med Forum 2016;27(1):5-9.