Cen Shu-Tian, Yan Wei-Hai
Shanghai Jinshan District Party School of CPC, Shanghai, China.
Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, China.
Front Public Health. 2022 Apr 8;10:844015. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.844015. eCollection 2022.
This article is aimed to examine the effect of economic growth on the health of residents from the perspective of local government behavior. First of all, it is theoretically proved that in an economy with economic decentralization and political centralization, because the local government implements the central planner's "people-oriented" and "people-centered" requirements, the local government pays attention to both its own consumption and the health of residents. For this reason, he prefers public health investment, and the conclusion is that there is a stable and balanced relationship between residents' health and economic growth. When the local government's relative importance to people's livelihood is greater than its own consumption, the economic growth will have a significant and positive impact on residents' health. And the internal mechanism of economic growth affecting residents' health is combed mathematically. Secondly, using panel data from China's 31 inland provinces from 2003 to 2019, empirical tests show that the hypothesis that China's economic growth promotes residents' health is established. The work of this article means that the improvement of residents' health depends not only on the total amount of available resources brought about by economic growth, but also on the government's livelihood preferences. The public health investment behavior of local governments in China is an important clue to explains that China's economic growth can promote residents' health.
本文旨在从地方政府行为视角考察经济增长对居民健康的影响。首先，从理论上证明，在经济分权与政治集权的经济体中，由于地方政府贯彻中央规划者“以人为本”“以人民为中心”的要求，地方政府既关注自身消费又关注居民健康。因此，其偏好公共卫生投资，结论是居民健康与经济增长之间存在稳定均衡关系。当地方政府对民生的相对重视程度大于自身消费时，经济增长将对居民健康产生显著的正向影响。并从数学上梳理了经济增长影响居民健康的内在机制。其次，利用2003—2019年中国31个内陆省份的面板数据，实证检验表明中国经济增长促进居民健康的假说成立。本文的工作意味着居民健康的改善不仅取决于经济增长带来的可用资源总量，还取决于政府的民生偏好。中国地方政府的公共卫生投资行为是解释中国经济增长能够促进居民健康的一条重要线索。
