Dynamics of Health Poverty Status in Pakistan: A New Insight Of Pakistan Panel Household Survey
Author: Hina Rehman

Traditionally, well-being of a mankind was considered how much money he has in monetary terms. Now-a-days this theory of well-being has been improved. Recently new approach of well-being has been introduced which is known as multidimensional perspective of the well-being. It is apparent that there is a significant reduction in headcount poverty from 34.4% in 2000-01 to 29.5% in 2013-14 in Pakistan. Nonetheless, there has been no considerable development in health dimension as a social indicator over this extended period of time. This study tries to evaluate the dynamics of health status and its determinants in Pakistan from 2001 to 2010. Alkire and Foster (2007, 2011) methodology has been used to measure the health poverty status and structural equation model has been used to check the determinants of health poverty status in Pakistan. The estimation results for the first round of PRHS-I (2001) indicates that headcount health poverty ratio is 81.46 percent and intensity of health poverty is 46.59 percent. Health poverty index yields a value of 37.9 percent. While the estimation results for the last round of Pakistan Panel Household Survey (PPHS-2010) reveals that headcount health poverty ratio is 43.23 percent and intensity of health poverty is 51.4 percent. Multidimensional health poverty index yields a value of 22 percent. The comparison of estimation result for these two period of time highlights that there is significant decline in the occurrence of health poverty from 81.4 percent in 2001 to 43.2 percent in 2010. Similarly the health poverty index also indicated the declining trend over this extended period of time from 0.37 in 2001 to 0.22 in 2010. But intensity of health poverty is increasing over this extended period of time from 46 percent in 2001 to 51.4 percent in 2010. Dynamics perspective results highlights that 41.33 percent household lie in the category of chronic poor, about 47.19 percent household lie in the category of transitory poor and about 11.48 percent household lie in the category of never poor. The results indicate that about 10 percent household lie in the category of “moved into poverty pool” and about 90 percent households lie in the category of “moved out of poverty pool”. All determinants are significantly related to the dependent variable i.e. health poverty index expect maternal health status and education by using the PRHS-I (2001) dataset.ii Similarly, All determinants are significantly related to the dependent variable i.e. health poverty index expect use of healthcare service, quality of healthcare service and biological issue by using the PPHS-2010 dataset. Supervisor:- Dr Ahsan ul Haq

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Keywords : Dynamics of Health Poverty Status, Health Poverty Status, Pakistan Panel Household Survey
Supervisor: Ahsan ul Haq Satti

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