中国居民健康水平的地区差异分析

Analysis on Regional Differences of Residents' Health in China

采用预期寿命来反映居民健康水平,应用变异系数、极值差率和泰尔指数等方法考察我国居民健康水平的地区差异变动,同时按不同区域对泰尔指数进行了分解,从而考察了居民健康水平地区差异的构成,最后对我国居民健康水平的地区差异进行了σ收敛和β收敛检验。结果表明,居民健康水平差异主要表现为东中西三大区域间的差异,经济发达地区居民健康水平高于不发达地区,同时居民健康水平差异呈现明显缩小的趋势。

This paper used the life expectancy to reflect health status of residents and applies coefficient of variation, rate of extreme gap and Theil index to analyse the regional differences of health of the inhabitants. At the same time, Theil index was decomposed into different regions, which inspected the constitution of regional difference in health status of the inhabitants. Finally, we test σ convergence and β convergence of regional health differences. The results showed that regional differences of residents＇ health come mainly from three regional differences among the east, central and western regions. The health status of developed regions residents is better than less-developed regions, but the health status clearly show a narrowing trend.