 Health Care Analysis and Regional Disparities in Different Provinces of IranIranian Economic Review (IER), 2009, vol. 14, issue 2, 113-134 Abstract: The main objective of the present study is to find out healthcare disparities in different states of Iran with reference to the relevant public health indicators and also extract those principal factors which are responsible for unequal distribution of healthcare facilities in Iran. Factor analysis is applied as a structure detection method with the goal of discovering that how many different factors are needed to explain the pattern of relationships among the variables including both component analysis and common factor analysis. The analysis presented in the study concludes that four components i.e. Child Mortality rate, number of Rural Public Health Centers, number of Rehabilitation Centers and number of paramedics, could describe nearly about 76 percent of total variance explained for regional disparities and thereby any considerable policy action implemented by the government effectively changes the environment of health and health care facilities distribution among the states specially deprived regions in Iran. Keywords: Health; Disparities; -; Factor; Analysis-Taxonomy-; Ranking-; Iran. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eut:journl:v:14:y:2009:i:2:p:113 Access Statistics for this article Iranian Economic Review (IER) is currently edited by Dr.Hossien Abbasinejad More articles in Iranian Economic Review (IER) from Faculty of Economics,University of Tehran.Tehran,Iran Contact information at EDIRC. |
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