Xu Yanling, Tao Ran, Mahmood Chaudhry Kashif, Altuntaş Mehmet
School of Business, Wuchang University of Technology, Wuhan, China.
Qingdao Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Qingdao, China.
Front Public Health. 2022 Mar 4;10:860325. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.860325. eCollection 2022.
The study's main purpose is to estimate the impact of the financial structure of Asian economies on the healthcare sector from 2000 to 2019. For empirical estimation, we relied on two-stage least square (2SLS) and generalized method of moment (GMM) estimation techniques. Two different proxies, infant mortality and life expectancy, were used in the analysis to represent the health status of the people. The findings of both 2SLS and GMM models confirm that improved financial structure causes life expectancy to rise and infant mortality to fall. Moreover, the increased usage of the internet also exerts a positive impact on the health status of Asians. Further, the rise in gross domestic product (GDP) and health expenditures also improve the health status of Asians by increasing their life expectancy and reducing their infant mortality rate. Improvement in financial structure causes the health status of the people to rise. Therefore, to achieve superior health status, the development of financial structure should be part and parcel of health policies and strategies in Asian economies.
该研究的主要目的是评估2000年至2019年亚洲经济体的金融结构对医疗保健部门的影响。为了进行实证估计，我们采用了两阶段最小二乘法（2SLS）和广义矩估计法（GMM）。分析中使用了两种不同的指标，即婴儿死亡率和预期寿命，来代表人们的健康状况。2SLS和GMM模型的结果均证实，金融结构的改善会使预期寿命延长，婴儿死亡率降低。此外，互联网使用的增加也对亚洲人的健康状况产生了积极影响。此外，国内生产总值（GDP）和卫生支出的增长也通过提高亚洲人的预期寿命和降低婴儿死亡率来改善他们的健康状况。金融结构的改善会使人们的健康状况提高。因此，为了实现卓越的健康状况，金融结构的发展应成为亚洲经济体健康政策和战略的重要组成部分。
