Investigating the impact of income distribution on health status of Mamasani city people

 

Asadollah Amiri¹, Abbas Yazdanpanah^2*, Iravan Masoudi Asl³

 

¹Department of Healthcare Management, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, IRAN.

²Assistant Professor, Department of Healthcare Management, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, IRAN.

³PhD of Health Services Management, Associate Professor, Majlis Research Center, Tehran, IRAN.

 

Abstract              The aim of this paper has been to investigate the impact of income distribution on health status of Mamasani City people. Calculations of this study were performed using the available statistics in time series of 1981-2017 and this issue has been investigated using Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) and Microfit software. Based on the results of bounds tests and dynamic model estimation, there is a long-term relation among variables in the model and the considered model has no problem regarding the results of pathology tests. Based on the results of long-term model estimation, there is a positive relation between per capita income and dependent variable (health indicator) and also a negative relation was observed between inequality of income distribution, inflammation and unemployment rate and dependent variable (health indicator). The results of test of error correction indicate that health indicator (life expectancy) is rectified with a high speed than its deviation from long-term balanced relation. The results of model structural stability test confirm existence of structural stability.

Key Words: Health indicator, inequality of income distribution, income per capita, inflammation rate and unemployment rate, Mamasani City.