The role of access to electricity, female education, and public health expenditure on female health outcomes: evidence from SAARC-ASEAN countries

Rahman, Mohammad Mafizur; Alam, Khosrul

doi:10.1186/s12905-021-01520-0

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“…Similar findings were also obtained by Mondal and Shitan [ 19 ] for 91 countries, Raghupathi and Raghupathi [ 45 ] for 26 OECD countries. Rahman and Alam [ 46 ] found that female education increased female life expectancy and reduced female mortality rates in SAARC-ASEAN countries. Furthermore, Rahman and Alam [ 47 ] identified the negative influence of female education on the child mortality rate in Bangladesh.…”

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Effects of globalization, energy consumption and ICT on health status in Australia: the role of financial development and education

Rahman

Alam

2022

BMC Public Health

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Background The outbreak of COVID-19 has alerted governments around the world, including Australia, to think seriously about the health issues. Life expectancy is one of such issues. Therefore, this study tries to reveal the effects of globalization, energy consumption, information and communication technology, financial development, education rate, and economic growth on life expectancy at birth in Australia. Methods Using the data period of 1990–2018, a series of econometric techniques: the Dickey-Fuller generalized least square test, Autoregressive Distributive Lag bounds test, fully modified ordinary least square method and the pairwise Granger causality test, are applied. Results The findings disclose that globalization, renewable energy use, information and communication technology, per capita gross domestic product, education rate, and financial development increased during this period but non-renewable energy use reduced life expectancy at birth. Unidirectional causal associations of the studied variables with life expectancy at birth are also revealed. Conclusions All the outcomes are relevant and useful for articulating an innovative policy in the health sector. The prime policy implication of this work is: the effective, efficient, and inclusive policies considering globalization, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption, information and communication technology, financial development, education rate, and economic growth should be formulated and executed for guaranteeing health status.

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Effects of globalization, energy consumption and ICT on health status in Australia: the role of financial development and education

Rahman

Alam

2022

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“…Despite LPG access and gender equality yielding a non-significant result, in the further analysis a significant association was found between LPG access and the education about health effects for women. This relationship is well documented, but we could establish that the relationship is specific to health effects and for India [118,119]. The results are useful for the design of future schemes for generating tangible gendered benefits in India.…”

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Liquefied Petroleum Gas Access and Consumption Expenditure: Measuring Energy Poverty through Wellbeing and Gender Equality in India

Singh Bahi,

Paavola

2024

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Despite fast electrification in India, many communities still suffer from the direct and indirect effects of energy poverty. We investigate whether access to liquified petroleum gas (LPG) and consumption expenditure can be used as measures of energy poverty in India, with a particular focus on gender equality. A district-level, quantitative analysis of household survey data was performed for the energy-poor states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. Wellbeing and gender equality indices were constructed from contextually relevant indicators, whilst LPG access was considered in terms of physical access, affordability, and awareness. Levels of consumption expenditure were considered based on the updated urban poverty line for India. We found that LPG access and consumption expenditure do not have a significant relationship with wellbeing or gender equality. The result indicates that the traditional economic approach of using consumption expenditure cannot capture the multidimensionality of energy poverty. This has significant implications as it challenges the status quo of energy poverty measurement. The research also adds value to existing arguments that electricity access cannot be used as a sole indicator of energy poverty, by extending the argument to access to a modern cooking fuel. LPG access was, however, strongly associated with the education of women on the health effects of smoke. Consumption expenditure is also strongly associated with female property ownership, which calls for future research on this novel relationship.

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“…Many studies have been conducted providing strong evidence to justify living conditions as basic social determinants of persons’ physical and mental health outcomes [ 28 , 41 ]. A recent study showed that women’s life expectancy had been positively influenced by electricity access and female education and negatively associated with women’s adult mortality rate [ 42 ]. Thus, experiencing barriers to accessing healthcare plays the role of an intermediate factor that is affected by living standard and hence deteriorates women’s health outcomes.…”

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Do education and living standard matter in breaking barriers to healthcare access among women in Bangladesh?

Sen,

Nilima,

Zahura

et al. 2023

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Background Barriers to healthcare access for women have a substantial influence on maternal and child health. By removing barriers to accessing healthcare, several sustainable development goals can be achieved. The goal of this study, based on the dominance analysis, was to examine how living standards and spousal education play role in removing barriers to healthcare access for women in Bangladesh. Methods The study used the nationally representative Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS), 2017-18 data. A binary logistic regression model was applied for analyzing different types of health access barriers in the study. Additionally, a dominance analysis was conducted to identify the most responsible factors for removing barriers. Results In Bangladesh, 66% of women faced at least one barrier in accessing healthcare. The results obtained from logistic regression and dominance analysis revealed that women’s standard of living and spousal education explained the highest variation of having at least one barrier in accessing healthcare. Specifically, a high standard of living explained 24% of the total explained variation (OR 0.56, 95% CI 0.52–0.62), while both spousal education accounted for 27% (OR 0.49, 95% CI 0.45–0.54) of the total explained variation. The regression results also showed that women with higher standards of living as well as educated women having educated partners had lower odds of facing barriers in getting permission (OR 0.87, 95% CI 0.76-1.00 and OR 0.66, 95% CI 0.58–0.75) to go for advice/treatment, obtaining money (OR 0.43, 95% CI 0.39–0.47 and OR 0.37, 95% CI 0.34–0.40), distance to a health facility (OR 0.60, 95% CI 0.55–0.66 and OR 0.70, 95% CI 0.65–0.76), and not wanting to go alone (OR 0.72, 95% CI 0.66–0.89 and OR 0.75, 95% CI 0.69–0.81) for getting medical advice/treatment. Conclusion The findings of the study suggest paying extra attention to the spousal education and living standard of women to strengthen and reform the existing strategies and develop beneficial interventions to enhance unhindered accessibility to healthcare facilities for women.

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The role of access to electricity, female education, and public health expenditure on female health outcomes: evidence from SAARC-ASEAN countries

Cited by 11 publications

References 62 publications

Effects of globalization, energy consumption and ICT on health status in Australia: the role of financial development and education

Effects of globalization, energy consumption and ICT on health status in Australia: the role of financial development and education

Liquefied Petroleum Gas Access and Consumption Expenditure: Measuring Energy Poverty through Wellbeing and Gender Equality in India

Do education and living standard matter in breaking barriers to healthcare access among women in Bangladesh?

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