TÜRKİYE’DE İLLER ARASINDA BEŞ YAŞ ALTI ÇOCUK ÖLÜM HIZININ MEKÂNSAL ETKİLEŞİMİ: MEKÂNSAL PROBİT MODELLERİ.

Despite the rapid development shown in recent years, Turkey still lags behind many countries in terms of under-five mortality rate. As a matter of fact, it is known that there are still great inequalities in child mortality among provinces across the country. It is critical to determine the factors affecting the death rate in order to prevent the related problem. The studies to be carried out in this direction will pave the way for the development of strategies and policies that can be effective in reducing the mortality rate. In this direction, the aim of the study is to analyze the spatial interaction between provinces and the determinants of the under-five mortality rate in Turkey in 2019 by using spatial probit models. After determining the spatial dependence structure in the classical probit model, probit models with spatial delay (Spatial Autoregressive Model, SAR) and spatial error dependence (Spatial Error Model, SEM) have been estimated using the Approximate Likelihood Estimation method. As a result of the estimations, it has been concluded that per capita income, central government health expenditures and primary and secondary education graduation rates have a decreasing effect on under-five mortality rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]