Interaction of Social Capital and Health in Iranian Provinces

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1 Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, School of Management, Islamic Azad Universityof Arak Branch, Arak, Iran

2 Assistant Professor , Economics Department, School of Management, Islamic Azad Universityof Arak Branch, Arak, Iran

3 Associate Professor, Economics Department, School of Economics, Payame Noor Universityof Arak Center, Arak, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the mutual impacts of social capital and health in Iranian provinces. In order to study the present subject, the panel data vector autoregression for the period of 1394-1384 has been used. To calculate the social capital index of 11 variables, 5 variables have been used to calculate health capital. There is a positive and significant effect between the social capital and health in Iranian provinces during the studied period. Also, the positive and significant impact of economic growth of the provinces on the formation of social capital and health is one of the other results of model estimation. The experimental results obtained from the estimation of the model and the study of the interaction effects of research variables in the framework of analysis of variance show that in the study period, higher levels of social capital resulted in the health capital improvement in provinces and This improvement has improved the formation of social capital in turn. Therefore, social capital, as one of the main ways of promoting health, should be taken into consideration by health policymakers and other policy-makers in Iranian provinces.

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Strategic Studies of public policy
Volume 9, Issue 31
August 2019
Pages 115-130

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