International Conference on Eurasian Economies
24-25 August 2021 – Istanbul, TURKEY and ONLINE
Paper properties
Paper ID : 2503
Status : Paper published
Language : Turkish
Topic : Growth and Development
Presenter: Ph.D. candidate Tuğçe Acar
Session : 3A Kalkınma
The Relationship Democracy with Health and Governance Indicators: Panel Probit Approach
Demokrasi ile Sağlık ve Yönetişim Göstergelerinin İlişkisi: Panel Probit Yaklaşımı
- Ph.D. candidate Tuğçe Acar (Istanbul Beykent University, Türkiye)
- Prof. Dr. Ebru Çağlayan Akay (Marmara University, Türkiye)
Abstract
The relationship of politics with health has been documented in Greece and Rome in ancient times and has been the center of attention from past to present. The difficulty of interpreting the causal relationships between politics and democracy and outcome measures as the macro-social determinants of population health has limited the studies in the field. On the other hand, in the state-society relationship, governance and indicators representing the traditions and institutions in which authority is applied in a country are used as a tool to evaluate the tendencies of countries in the field of democracy over time. Accordingly, the study aims to address the issue in the relationship between democracy and health, together with governance indicators, within the framework of broader structural factors. For this aim, panel probit analysis was carried out for 144 countries between 2010 and 2018, examining the effect of explanatory variables on the probability of occurrence of the dependent variable. The limited number of studies dealing with the impact of democracy studies on the international level and over time makes the method used advantageous. According to the findings, the variables of freedom of expression and accountability, political stability and regulatory quality, which are among the indicators of governance, were found to be statistically significant on the democracy index, along with the variables of domestic general government health expenditures, infant mortality rate, GDP per capita, and the reasons for the results obtained were discussed.
JEL codes: C50, D78, O50
Acar, Tuğçe, Çağlayan Akay, Ebru (2021). "The Relationship Democracy with Health and Governance Indicators: Panel Probit Approach" in Proceedings of International Conference of Eurasian Economies 2021, pp.68-78, Istanbul, TURKEY and ONLINE.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36880/C13.02503
