The Determinants Of Population Health Spatial Disparities

Emilia Modranka; Jadwiga Suchecka

doi:10.2478/cer-2014-0039

Authors

Emilia Modranka University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Department of Spatial Econometrics
Jadwiga Suchecka University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Department of Spatial Econometrics

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2478/cer-2014-0039

Keywords:

Spatial Durbin Model, population health, Local Human Development Index

Abstract

Health of the population is one of the basic factors of social development. The results of empirical studies indicate a number of factors determining the level of health of the population related to access to health care services, the level of environmental pollution and the wealth of society. It must be assumed that the observed disparities in the health depend on distributions of particular determinants. The aim of the article is to assess the significance of the main factors affecting the occurrence of spatial disparities in the level of social development districts NTS-4 in terms of health of the population. The analysis was based on estimates of the Spatial Durbin Model (SDM) which takes into account the impact of neighborhood spatial units on level of dependent variable and the explanatory variables. The size of the level of social development in terms of health of the population in the study was approximate by the aggregate value of the index, which is the local component of the Local Human Development Index LHDI.

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