Author: Sanaullah Panezai
AIT Library Call Number: AIT RSPR no.RD-11-01
Year: 2010
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Research Studies Project Report (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2012
Examination Committee: Gopal B. Thapa (Chairperson); Jayant Kumar Routray, Soparth Pongquan (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: A regional inequality is common phenomena particularly in the debate of social development including health care. Efforts are made to reduce the regional and rural urban inequalities through promoting the equitable access to health care services and facilities all over the world. Whether the policy makers succeed to get equity in services in the boundary of the rein or not? It basically depends upon the nature of policies and programmes they formulate to implement. In Pakistan district is taken as a planning tool for health care development. Due to unequal topography and socioeconomic differences there are sharp rural urban and inter-district variations in Pakistan. In Pakistan federal government keeps the mandate of policy making however the provincial and district government implement those policies. This study explores the inter-district variation in health care services and development in Balochistan. The qualitative cum quantitative approach of research is applied. Firstly, to identify the priorities of policies and programmes in the context of health care services coverage the policies and programmes are critically analyzed. Then in order to find out the inter-district variation in health care services the study uses a set of twelve (12) indicators, of which ten (10) indicators are related to curative health care and two (2) are selected covering the curative aspect of health care. Using 0-1 transformation value technique, every indicator is given a transformed value. While summing the individual value of all variables, a campsite index is calculated. Then based on the transformed values of curative variables, a composite index is calculated for curative health services. Likewise, the composite index is also calculated for the preventive variables. Districts are ranked as under developed, moderately developed, dev
Scholarship Donor(s): University of Balochistan, Quetta
Note: A research study submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Regional and Rural Development Planning
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