Abstract
The objective of the study was to check the factors determining poverty and child mortality in Pakistan. We used secondary data, collected from various economic surveys and the World Bank. OLS technique used to find the relationship between variables. Consumer Price Index (CPI), GDP growth, number of hospitals, and unemployment used as independent variables. For poverty, female literacy rate, male literacy rate, immunization, and GDP growth used as independent variables for child mortality. The study showed that CPI, GDP growth, and the unemployment rate have a positive relationship with poverty whereas the number of hospitals has a negative relationship with poverty. Furthermore, the study revealed that the female literacy rate has a negative impact on infant mortality while the male literacy rate has no significant impact on the infant mortality rate. Immunization has a negative and significant relationship with the infant mortality rate. GDP growth has a positive impact on the infant mortality rate due to high inequality in Pakistan. Authors recommended that parental education, water quality, and motivation to mothers to utilize health facilities can play an important role to reduce poverty and child mortality.
Highlights
The children with more levels of deficiency of nutrients are more likely to have terrible health outcomes and eventually top death rates
The headcount poverty greatly influenced by GDP growth, the number of hospitals and unemployment, consumer price index (CPI), and infant mortality significantly influenced by immunization, male literacy rate, female literacy rate and GDP growth
From the results shown in table Female Literacy Rate (FLR), Male Literacy Rate (MLR), IMMU and GDP has effect on the dependent variable
Summary
The children with more levels of deficiency of nutrients are more likely to have terrible health outcomes and eventually top death rates. Further gender inequality exacerbates the situation makes more grim circumstances for nutrient deficient females in society The health of such communities acts as a bringer of income and falling ill devastates the financial standing along with physical health. The lack of provision of the necessities of life like nutrition, primary education, and sound physical health keeps them marginalized/ at the unhealthy quality of life which is an indicator of poverty. All these components make them incapable to use the poorly state-provided healthcare facilities and social stigma attached to their employment choices.
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