The Impact of Socio-Economic Factors on Life Expectancy in Iran

Subject Areas : medical documents

Ahmad Sarlak ¹ , Adibe Savari ²

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Arak, Iran
2 - PhD Student Economics, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Arak, Iran

Received: 2016-09-10 Accepted : 2017-04-10 Published : 2016-11-21

Keywords: CO2 emissions, life expectancy, per capta,

Abstract :

Introduction: Long life represent the well-being or better living standard of nation,as life expenctancy has direct link with social walfer, human health and economic development. The goal of study is to know the Impact of Socio factors (education, population growth) and Economic Factors (per capita gdp, food production) on Life Expectancy in Iran. Methods: The present study is causative and is kind of times series data within 1350-1392 with using Autoregressive distributed lag model and Micro fit 4.1 software and its data extracted from World Bank, Central Bank and Iran Statistics Central. Results: food production, school enrollment has positive and significant relationship with life expectancy in Iran. On the other hand inflation and population growth and CO2 emissions has negative and significant relationship with life expectancy in Iran. The results show In short long and long run GDP growth has positive and significant relationship with life expectancy Conclusion: The findings suggest that government of Iran should seriously check these socio-economic factors for increasing life expectancy.

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