Socioeconomic Determinants Of Health Status In Ethiopia

This study attempts to analyze the impact of per capital incame mother education.per capital Pllblic health expenditure,access to health facilities, clean water and sanitation on prevalence of child stunting in Ethiopia. For this purpose, regional state panel data is used to estimate arnreduced form of health production using fixed effect model estimation technique. The resultsrnshow per capita income, per capita public health expenditure, access to clean water andrnlIIothers ' education significantly affect prevalence of child stunting. However, mother educationrnbecomes insignificant when the impact of access to clean water source, sanitation facilities andrnhealthcare services are controlled. on the other hand, population per physician (proxy for accessrnto health care service;,) and access to sanitation facilities have insignificant impact. the resultsrnsuggest important role of income growth policies and promoting mother education to reducesrnprevalence of child stunting.

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