Socio-economic determinants of health outcomes in India

The present study attempts to highlight the socio-economic determinants of health outcomes in India. The study investigates the relationship between infant and child mortality and socio- economic factors of health outcomes. The important socio economic factors are household income, female education, standard of living, social class etc. It is well acknowledged that improvement in income, level of education, literacy rate, mother education etc have positive impact not only on general health status of the people, but also on children’s overall growth and development. Further, the study analyze the socio-economic determinants of health outcomes and their impact on Infant Mortality Rate and Under Five Mortality Rate.In this study, the indicators that obtained after carrying out PCA are index for Socio Economic status (ISES), index for Demographic status (IDS) and index for Environmental Status (IES), index for Maternal Health (IMH) Index for Malnutrition (IMAL) and Index of Child Health Immunization (ICHI).In order to investigate the relationship between variables Regression Analysis has been used. In Linear regression model, the dependent variables, the health outcomes are assumed to a linear function of independent variables i.e. the prepared indices. Demographic Regression value are (-.765) and U5MR value are this show the negative impact of IDS on U5MR.