中国地方政府公共卫生支出行为实证分析

Empirical Study on Public Health Expenditure of Local Government in China

公共卫生支出属于财政支出的重要组成部分。合理界定公共卫生支出占财政支出的比重是公共财政体制的重要内容。文章对2004-2010年间全国31省、市、自治区面板数据进行实证分析研究了影响地方财政公共卫生支出的因素及效应。研究表明:人口规模、经济发展水平、城市化程度和与财政公共卫生支出之间存在一定的相关性。财政分权对公共卫生支出具有很小的负面影响,政府规模的膨胀程度、人口结构与财政公共卫生支出并没有必然的因果关系。

Public health expenditure is an important part of fiscal expenditure. With the establishment of the public finance system, it is important to define the ratio of public health expenditure in the fiscal expenditure reasonably. The paper uses panel data to analyze empirically what factors influence spending behaviors of local governments on health in China. The result indicates that there exists a certain correlation between economic develupment, population size, urbanization and local public spending on health. There is no necessary relation between population structure, the organization and official amount expansion and publit health expenditure. The fiscal decentralization has only a small negative effect on the public heahh expenditure.