Path analysis model estimates using generalized method of moment : Case study Maternal mortality in the Province of East Java

Abstract

Health sector development directed to reach international commitment who poured in millennium development goals (MDGs). Reducing child mortality and to improve maternal health is the goal of the mdgs associated directly with health namely to lower maternal mortality rate (MMR). MMR high in a region basically describes degrees health low public and potentially cause a setback economic and social in the level of household appliances the community and nasional. One of effort to overcome these problems were do an analysis about factor-factor affecting maternal mortality. One method used in this research is by using path analysis. The estimation method used to estimate is the method of moments and maximum likelihood estimation. This study used estimates of Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) as an extension of the method of moments. GMM estimation is used to exploit information form of the condition of the population moment. The results obtained, parameter estimation path analysis done gradually because consists of two structural models. The application in the case of maternal mortality in East Java suggests that the variable percentage of pregnant women who received FE1 tablet, the percentage of pregnant women carry the K1 program, the percentage of households that behave clean and healthy living as well as a variable percentage of births assisted by dukun to contribute to maternal mortality through a variable percentage pregnant women at high risk/complication