农民健康与民主参与——来自12省88村的微观证据

Farmers' Health and Democratic Participation: Evidence from 88 Villages in 12 Provinces

本文运用微观调研数据对农村民主与农民健康的关系进行实证分析发现农户民主参与对其自评健康的提高有显著的作用。分析民主参与对农民健康的影响渠道结果表明,村民个体民主参与并不能显著通过公共品来影响健康,推测个体民主参与更多通过"赋权"的心理作用来提高村民的健康;村庄集体民主参与对公共品的提供有显著的促进作用,而公共品的改进则可以改善村民健康水平。

Employing micro data from 12 provinces of 1423 individual households,this paper investigates the relationship of the household head's democratic participation of the village and his or her health. Empirical results indicate that the household head's democratic participation of the village has significant and positive effect on his or her health. Further,this paper investigated the working channels of democratic participation on health. Individual level of democratic participation of the village can not have effect on response's health through increasing health related public goods. We infer that individual level of democratic participation of the village can have effect on health through empowerment and psychological dimension. The paper examines the determinants of the health related public goods in village level,which support the conclusion above. Empirical result also indicates that village level of democratic participation of the village has significant effect on the health related public goods. Finally,some policy implications are concluded.