Health Infrastructure in India

Abstract

The article investigates the link between health infrastructural inputs and outputs and their impact on economic growth in India during 1980–2005. The empirical investigation has been carried out by simple regression technique and Granger causality test. The findings confirmed that health infrastructural inputs have substantial impact on health infrastructural outputs such as crude birth rate (CBR), crude death rate (CDR), infant mortality rate (IMR), life expectancy at birth (LER) and couple protection rate (CPR). The Granger causality further confirms that there is presence of unidirectional causality from economic growth to CBR, CDR, IMR and LER at birth. But it does not find any causality between economic growth and CPR. The study also finds no causality from CDR to IMR, CDR to CPR, IMR to CPR and LER at birth to CPR.