Kim K, Moody P M
Department of Behavioral Science, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40508-0086.
Soc Sci Med. 1992 Apr;34(8):837-42. doi: 10.1016/0277-9536(92)90253-m.
This study is an attempt to examine the relative importance of health care resources in predicting infant mortality within industrialized, developing, and underdeveloped countries. The analyses were based on the data of 117 countries. Findings from this study suggest that health resources as a whole do not make a significant contribution to accounting for the variance of infant mortality rates over and above the variance accounted for by socioeconomic resources only. The contribution of health resources to the health of the population as a whole is really rather small in comparison to the role of socioeconomic resources.
本研究旨在探讨医疗保健资源在预测工业化国家、发展中国家和欠发达国家婴儿死亡率方面的相对重要性。分析基于117个国家的数据。该研究的结果表明，总体而言，医疗资源在解释婴儿死亡率方差方面，相较于仅由社会经济资源所解释的方差，并没有做出显著贡献。与社会经济资源的作用相比，医疗资源对总体人口健康的贡献实际上相当小。
