Browsing by Author "Guevara, Ma. Charmaine D."
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Item Restricted Determinants of health status in the Philippines: 1970-1989(1993-03) Bernarte, Ma. Freida L.; Guevara, Ma. Charmaine D.; Herrin, Alejandro N.This paper analyzes the relationships between the health indicator infant mortality rate and proximate determinants for nutrition and health care: daily calorie, supply, daily protein supply, hospital bed capacity, and socio economic determinants: employment rate, per capital government health expenditures, and per capita plersonal consumption expenditures. Results from the time series regression analysis show that infant mortality rate is negatively related to daily calorie supply, daily protein supply and hospital bed capacity. With improvements in these three proximate variables, the infant mortality rates are expected to decline. This implies that the health status of the population is getting better. Regression analysis also reveals a negative relationship between infant mortality rate and per capital government health expenditures and per capital personal consumption expenditures. This relationship implies that increases in government health and personal consumption expenditures improve health conditions through an increased attention given ~o health care and services. This may be seen through decreases in infant mortality rates. positive relationship between infant mortality.