Department of Physiology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Iuliu Hatieganu", Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Department of Educational Sciences, Hasan Ali Yucel Faculty of Education, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, Turkey.
Front Public Health. 2022 Jun 30;10:907138. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.907138. eCollection 2022.
Life expectancy is a significant indicator of public health, life quality, welfare and economic development. Therefore, improvement in life expectancy is among the priority targets of the countries. This paper investigates the effect of economic freedom and educational attainment on life expectancy in the new EU member states, experiencing an institutional, educational, and economic transformation, during the period 2000-2019 by using cointegration and causality tests, because economic freedom and educational attainment can foster the life expectancy through institutional and economic variables such as institutions, governance, sound monetary and fiscal policies, economic growth, innovation, technological development, better living standards and access to superior healthcare services. The causality and cointegration analyses reveal that economic freedom and educational attainment are significant factors underlying life expectancy in the short and long term. However, educational attainment is found to be more effective on life expectancy than economic freedom. The findings have important implications for educational and health policies in analyzed countries. Governments must understand the education-health relationship to be able to develop and promote educational policies that have the potential to improve public health.
预期寿命是公共卫生、生活质量、福利和经济发展的重要指标。因此，提高预期寿命是各国的优先目标之一。本文通过使用协整和因果检验，研究了经济自由和教育程度对新加入欧盟的成员国（经历了制度、教育和经济转型）预期寿命的影响，这些国家的制度、治理、稳健的货币和财政政策、经济增长、创新、技术发展、更好的生活水平以及获得优质医疗服务等方面，这些方面都可以通过制度和经济变量来促进预期寿命的延长。因果和协整分析表明，经济自由和教育程度是短期和长期预期寿命的重要因素。然而，教育程度对预期寿命的影响比经济自由更为显著。这些发现对分析国家的教育和卫生政策具有重要意义。政府必须了解教育与健康的关系，以便能够制定和促进具有改善公共卫生潜力的教育政策。
