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KMID : 0387320000100020120
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Korean Journal of Health Policy and Administration
2000 Volume.10 No. 2 p.120 ~ p.130
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The Relationship between GDI(Gender Related Development Index) and the Maternal and Child Mortality
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Shin Mi-Kyong
Kim Han-Joong
Kim Mo-Im
Park Eun-Cheol
Park Jong-Yeon
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Abstract
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Studies on the relation between socio-economic factors and maternal and child health have found that poverty, lack of education, inappropriate health services are affecting to maternal and child health. The Gender Related Development Index (GDI) focuses on equality between men and women as well as on the average achievement of all people taken together, using same variables as the Human Development Index (H야) which are life expectancy, literacy rate, and per capita GDP. This research is to investigate whether HDI and GDI are useful determinants for maternal and infant mortality.
Using 146 UN member countries data, we conducted multiple regression analysis for maternal and infant mortality with three model which are Model(individual variables-literacy rate, per capita GDI) ,Model(HDI) and Model(GDI).
The results showed that HDI and GDI are powerful determinants of both maternal and infant mortality, respectively HDI(β=-1.18, t=3.3; β=-1.04, t=5.1), GDI(β=-1.44, T=3.9; β=1.28, T=6.5). The higher power in model with GDI are both maternal and infant mortalities represented that GDI was more powerful determinant of matermal and infant mortality, than HDI respectively HDI(R²=0.824, R²=0.842), GDI(R²=0.834, R²=0.865).
In conclusion, the maternal and infant mortalities are explained by G야 and H야 and may be lower I the societies where there are less discrimination between men and women.
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KEYWORD
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Maternal Mortality Rate(mmr), Infant Mortality Rate(IMR), HDI (Human Development Index), GDI (Gender Related Development Index)
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