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Health Care Analysis and Regional Disparities in Different Provinces of Iran

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  • Hamid Sepehrdoust

    (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics & Social Science, Bu-Ali-Sina University, Hamedan, Iran)

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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.

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  • Hamid Sepehrdoust, 2009. "Health Care Analysis and Regional Disparities in Different Provinces of Iran," Iranian Economic Review (IER), Faculty of Economics,University of Tehran.Tehran,Iran, vol. 14(2), pages 113-134, fall.
    • Handle: RePEc:eut:journl:v:14:y:2009:i:2:p:113
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    1. Suranjan Majumder & Subham Roy & Arghadeep Bose & Indrajit Roy Chowdhury, 2023. "Understanding regional disparities in healthcare quality and accessibility in West Bengal, India: A multivariate analysis," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 15(5), pages 1086-1113, June.
    2. Hadi Rahmani Fazli & Abbas Arabmazar, 2018. "A Mathematical Programing Model of Budget Allocation for Development Disparities Reduction among Iran Provinces," Iranian Economic Review (IER), Faculty of Economics,University of Tehran.Tehran,Iran, vol. 22(1), pages 235-251, Winter.

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