An investigation for mother and child health by multi objective optimisation approach

Maternal and child health in a country are two significant elements that show the health status and development of the country according to the applied health policies and systems. While this research discusses topics of death, birth, illness, and nutrition level as maternal and child health indicators, the most critical parameters showing the mother and child health status are maternal mortality rate and infant mortality rate. A country's maternal mortality rate, infant mortality rate, under-five mortality rate, low fertility rate, health expenditures, and high employment in the health sector indicate the development of that country. According to these indicators in this study, by investigating the factors affecting maternal and child health in Turkey. it is aimed to minimize maternal mortality and infant mortality rate and focused on maximizing health expenditures with a multi-objective optimization method. Therefore, the analysis of the multi-objective optimization model was made by the Minitab-19 statistical package program, using annual data for the 2002-2018 period. According to this analysis, while there is a decrease in maternal mortality rate compared to 2018, it has been determined that there would be an increase in health expenditures. It was observed that there was not changeable for the infant mortality rate indicator. under the conditions discussed In this context, a general assessment of maternal and child health was made, and various policy recommendations have been presented.