“INCIDENCIA DEL GASTO PÚBLICO EN SALUD SOBRE LA TASA DE MORTALIDAD INFANTIL DE ECUADOR: UN ENFOQUE ECONOMÉTRICO, PERIODO 2008-2019”

The reduction of infant mortality is a millennium goal, which is why it has become one of the priorities for each country and undoubtedly a challenge for their governments and the public health system. Globally, about 5.3 million deaths occur in the first five years of life and almost half of them in the first month of life, that is, one death every eleven seconds, most of them from preventable causes. In this scenario, the present research topic arose with the objective of evaluating the incidence of public spending on health on the infant mortality rate through the use of econometric regressions of panel data and spatial models. Data were collected for 21 provinces of Ecuador from the National Surveys of Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment (ENEMDU), from the base of the Statistical Registry of General Deaths (EDG) and from the World Bank Development Indicators (WDI) for the period 2008-2019. For the case of Ecuador, the results reveal a positive relationship between the variables, which implies that, if public spending on health increases, the infant mortality rate would also increase. On the other hand, when control variables such as inequality and schooling were added, a positive and negative effect was found, respectively. A policy implication suggests that the national government should allocate efficiently, correctly and opportunely the resources of public spending on health, in order to help reduce the infant mortality rate in this country.

• Главный автор: Ortega Pesantes, Jackeline Maribel (author)
• Формат: bachelorThesis
• Язык: spa
• Опубликовано: 2021
• Предметы: ECONOMÍA; MORTALIDAD; SALUD PÚBLICA
• Online-ссылка: https://dspace.unl.edu.ec/jspui/handle/123456789/24077