Effects of Inflation on Women’s Health in Selected Middle-income Countries

Abstract

Good health has always been considered as one of many variables that affects human life. From economic point of view, health can be  considered as a sustainable good like any other economic commodity. All people are born with healthy reserves, some less and some  more, and take advantage of it. Accomplished researches show that several variables affect health. One of these variables is inflation. The  main purpose of this research is to examine the theoretical relationship between the inflation rate and women's health (life  expectancy, mortality rates) in the selected middle-income countries using panel data. The results of the estimation using Fixed Effects  model and Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) of those selected countries for the period of 1997-2011, show that inflation has  significant negative impacts on the life expectancy of women and significant positive impacts on the mortality rate of women in the  selected middle-income group of countries.