ABSTRACT
Objective: To see the effect of maternal mortality rate and life expectancy on the death rate via demand side financing intervention in Pakistan
Study Design: Time Series Experimental Study
Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in IBM, UET,Lahore during August to September, 2015
Materials and Methods: This was a time series experimental study where time series data from World Bank Indicators [WBI] from 2000 to 2013 was used to see the effect of maternal mortality rate and life expectancy on the death rate. Dependent variable is death rate in the country and independent variables are maternal mortality rate and life expectancy of the country of Pakistan. I have applied regression through Eviews software to see the effect and results are significant
Results: There is a positive significant effect of MMR on the death rate and negative significant effect of LE on the death rate. MMR has significant positive impact on the death rate its P value is .0004 and Life expectancy has negative significant impact on the death rate its P value is .0000
There is no multicol linearity as Durbin Watson value is 1.785 which is near 2.There is no heteroscedasticity as R-Squared value is .99 almost 1
Conclusion: It is essential to decrease the death rate by providing healthcare facilities; although government allocate budget to healthcare and trying to facilitate especially poor via providing free medicines and many other healthcare incentives [Primary and Secondary healthcare] which somehow affect the death rate. However healthcare needs more funds to increase the usage of accessible and timely healthcare facilities to people. This can be possible via acquiring fund to facilitate poor through a proper system i.e Demand side financing