AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS ON CAUSALITY BETWEEN HEALTH-MEDICAL ENVIRONMENTS AND ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENTS IN DEVELOPING COUNTERIES

2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 16530145
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Applied economics
• Research Institution: SAITAMA UNIVERSITY
• Principal Investigator: NAGASHIMA Masaharu SAITAMA UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 経済学部, 助教授 (70228013)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KAIYAMA MICHIHIRO SAITAMA UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, PROFESSOR, 経済学部, 教授 (40096392)
• Project Period (FY): 2004 – 2005
• Keywords: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT / SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT / THAILAND / HEALTH AND MEDICAL ENVIRONMENT / ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT / 所得格差

Research Abstract

The purpose of this research project is to demonstrate that there is not only correlation but also a causal relation between Health-Medical Environments and Economic Environments in developing countries in general. We choose Thailand out of many countries on various development stages for our analysis, and divide the country into eight regions, Bangkok Metropolis, Vicinity of Bangkok, Southern Region, Northern Region, Northeast Region, West Region, East Region and Midland Region. The first important point is that from various data concerning Health and Medical Environment and Economic Environment we could make sure correlation between those two environments in both urban and rural areas. Even more important is that we managed to proved a hypothesis that there is a causal relation related to production function between those environments.