Determinants of Infant Mortality Rate in Malaysia: Evidence from Dynamic Panel Data Study

Tang, Chor Foon

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“…As a consequence, the present study employs panel analysis, which combines timeseries and cross-sectional data. Previous research has applied panel data and included the same variables as the present study [74][75][76]. e present study investigates the effect of macroeconomic conditions such as unemployment rate, pension liabilities, gross domestic product, education expenditure, and healthcare expenditure on mortality rate.…”

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Econometric Analysis of Macroeconomic to Age‐Specific Mortality Rate in Malaysia: Evidence from Panel Data

Edrus

Siri

Haron

et al. 2022

Journal of Mathematics

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Human mortality is unanticipated and unavoidable, particularly in light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Insurance companies, actuaries, financial institutions, demographers, and the government may suffer catastrophic losses as a result of imprecise mortality estimates. Understanding the factors that contribute to mortality at the population level can help the government improve its efforts to promote health and reduce health inequalities. Consequently, the present study utilizes an econometrics model to estimate Malaysia’s mortality rate, with macroeconomic factors as explanatory variables. The present study employed the unemployment rate, pension liabilities, gross domestic product, education expenditure, and healthcare expenditure as explanatory variables. The empirical results imply that the fixed effects model is feasible when using panel data across specific age groups. Moreover, the fixed effects model is devoid of cross-sectional dependency, heteroscedasticity, and serial correlation. The findings reveal that the unemployment rate, gross domestic product, and education expenditure all have a significant influence on the mortality rate. However, pension liabilities and health expenditure have an insignificant relationship with the mortality rate. The fixed effects model is demonstrated to be a robust model that fits the Malaysian scenario with an R-squared of approximately 84.69%. The present study is novel due to the fact that the model established between explanatory variables and the mortality rate shows a significant relationship, which can be helpful in forecasting the mortality at population level as a preparation for the post-COVID-19 mortality. The present study aims to contribute to the development of an effective support mechanism by rectifying Malaysia’s socioeconomic inequalities in order to mitigate the COVID-19 increase in mortality rate. Therefore, the Malaysian government is strongly encouraged to examine its expenditure on education and gross domestic product in order to improve the mortality rate, particularly among the adult and older population.

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Econometric Analysis of Macroeconomic to Age‐Specific Mortality Rate in Malaysia: Evidence from Panel Data

Edrus

Siri

Haron

et al. 2022

Journal of Mathematics

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“…Referring to the research of relevant scholars at home and abroad [27,28], the cultural industry innovation efficiency calculated by CRS super efficiency model is selected as the dependent variable, and other external environment variables are selected as the dependent variable to build the following panel regression model: (6) In the above Equation (6) x 1it , x 2it , x 3it , x 4it , x 5it , x 6it respectively represent the external environmental variables that affect the innovation efficiency of China's cultural industry. μ i indicates constant, obeys N(0, σ μ 2), and η it indicates random effect.…”

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Research on the Measurement of Innovation Efficiency of Chinese Cultural Industry and the Influence of Environmental Factors

Guo,

Zeng

2023

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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With the rapid development of industrial society, environmental pollution, climate change, ecological damage and other issues have become serious challenges. The Chinese government attaches great importance to environmental pollution control and has successively issued a series of central and local policies. In 2020, the Chinese government clearly put forward the strategic goal of "achieving carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060". Since the reform and opening up for more than 40 years, China's industrial scale has achieved rapid growth, but it has the extensive characteristics of high pollution, high energy consumption and high investment. According to the statistical data in the China Environmental Statistics Yearbook 2021, in 2020, China's industrial carbon

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“…In 2000, the World Health Organization launched eight millennium goals, among which one was on reducing child mortality. Since then, 189 countries have implemented measures to improve health services for this population ( 2 - 3 ) .…”

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“…Child health is the subject of debates at an international level, given the importance of promoting, protecting and recovering the health of this part of the population that will be responsible for the future of the nation (1)(2)(3) . In 2000, the World Health Organization launched eight millennium goals, among which one was on reducing child mortality.…”

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Absenteeism in child health services: a systematic review

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Objectives: to analyze data from qualitative studies related to the phenomenon of health follow-up dropout of newborns, infants and preschoolers in child health services. Methods: systematic review, carried out in 19 information bases. Studies were included that portray the reasons for dropping out health follow-up of children up to five years old. The JBI methodology was used for systematic reviews of qualitative evidence. Results: we identified 20,199 studies. After applying the eligibility criteria, 81 were selected. Seven were excluded due to duplicity, resulting in 74 articles that were read in full. After this phase, three articles were selected for the final sample and later after reading their references, one more was included, totaling four articles for critical analysis. Conclusions: the synthesized findings highlight that health follow-up dropout is based on personal knowledge and beliefs, the family routine dynamics and access to services.

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Determinants of Infant Mortality Rate in Malaysia: Evidence from Dynamic Panel Data Study

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Econometric Analysis of Macroeconomic to Age‐Specific Mortality Rate in Malaysia: Evidence from Panel Data

Econometric Analysis of Macroeconomic to Age‐Specific Mortality Rate in Malaysia: Evidence from Panel Data

Research on the Measurement of Innovation Efficiency of Chinese Cultural Industry and the Influence of Environmental Factors

Absenteeism in child health services: a systematic review

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