International Remittances and Women’s Reproductive Health Care: Evidence from Pakistan
ABSTRACTThis paper determines the effect of international remittances on the healthcare utilization of childbearing mothers in Pakistan using the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) survey, 2018–19. The study reports a significant and positive effect of international remittances...
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| description | ABSTRACTThis paper determines the effect of international remittances on the healthcare utilization of childbearing mothers in Pakistan using the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) survey, 2018–19. The study reports a significant and positive effect of international remittances on the healthcare outcomes of childbearing mothers. Importantly, the remittance-receiving households have 0.615, 0.208 and 0.306 times the odds of the non-receiving households, utilizing prenatal healthcare, postnatal healthcare, and healthcare decision making, respectively, and all of them are statistically significant. Consequently, the analysis confirms that remittance receiving-households do in fact influence and increase the likelihood of utilizing prenatal healthcare, postnatal healthcare and decisions about medical treatment for women. As regression-based estimation of remittances is prone to selection bias due to the nature of the non-experimental data set, we also used propensity score matching methods, which also confirmed a significant and positive effect of international remittances on healthcare outcomes of the childbearing mothers. Thus, financial support or social development programs by the government or non-governmental organization are pivotal in enhancing the healthcare outcomes and ultimately the living standards of childbearing mothers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-40915f3733bc40f49a075917430e9ca02022-12-22T03:02:31ZengTaylor & Francis GroupHealth Systems & Reform2328-86042328-86202022-01-018110.1080/23288604.2022.2064792International Remittances and Women’s Reproductive Health Care: Evidence from PakistanTahir Mahmood0Ramesh Kumar1Asad Ur Rehman2Sathirakorn Pongpanich3Department of Economics, University of Chitral, Seenlasht, PakistanPublic Health Department, Health Services Academy, Islamabad, PakistanDepartment of Economics, University of Chitral Seenlasht, Islamabad, PakistanCollege of Public Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, ThailandABSTRACTThis paper determines the effect of international remittances on the healthcare utilization of childbearing mothers in Pakistan using the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) survey, 2018–19. The study reports a significant and positive effect of international remittances on the healthcare outcomes of childbearing mothers. Importantly, the remittance-receiving households have 0.615, 0.208 and 0.306 times the odds of the non-receiving households, utilizing prenatal healthcare, postnatal healthcare, and healthcare decision making, respectively, and all of them are statistically significant. Consequently, the analysis confirms that remittance receiving-households do in fact influence and increase the likelihood of utilizing prenatal healthcare, postnatal healthcare and decisions about medical treatment for women. As regression-based estimation of remittances is prone to selection bias due to the nature of the non-experimental data set, we also used propensity score matching methods, which also confirmed a significant and positive effect of international remittances on healthcare outcomes of the childbearing mothers. Thus, financial support or social development programs by the government or non-governmental organization are pivotal in enhancing the healthcare outcomes and ultimately the living standards of childbearing mothers.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23288604.2022.2064792Health care decision makingmother health care utilizationPakistanpropensity score matchingremittances |
| spellingShingle | Tahir Mahmood Ramesh Kumar Asad Ur Rehman Sathirakorn Pongpanich International Remittances and Women’s Reproductive Health Care: Evidence from Pakistan Health Systems & Reform Health care decision making mother health care utilization Pakistan propensity score matching remittances |
| title | International Remittances and Women’s Reproductive Health Care: Evidence from Pakistan |
| title_full | International Remittances and Women’s Reproductive Health Care: Evidence from Pakistan |
| title_fullStr | International Remittances and Women’s Reproductive Health Care: Evidence from Pakistan |
| title_full_unstemmed | International Remittances and Women’s Reproductive Health Care: Evidence from Pakistan |
| title_short | International Remittances and Women’s Reproductive Health Care: Evidence from Pakistan |
| title_sort | international remittances and women s reproductive health care evidence from pakistan |
| topic | Health care decision making mother health care utilization Pakistan propensity score matching remittances |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23288604.2022.2064792 |
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