卫生支出对经济增长质量的影响研究--基于省际面板数据的实证检验

The Impact of Health Expenditure on the Quality of Economic Growth:An Empirical Test Based on Provincial Panel Data

健康是促进人的全面发展的内在要求,是经济社会发展的基础条件。文章从人力资本效应、消费需求效应和生产率效应三个方面对卫生支出影响经济增长质量的作用机理进行理论探讨,基于2010-2017年中国31个省级行政区的面板数据,构建函数模型,分析卫生支出及其结构差异、区域差异对经济增长质量的影响。实证结果表明:卫生支出对提升经济增长质量具有显著的作用,卫生支出每增长1%,经济增长质量提高约0.06%;卫生支出对提升经济增长质量存在结构差异,政府卫生支出提升经济增长质量作用显著;卫生支出对提升经济增长质量存在地区差异,西部地区的卫生支出对提升经济增长质量作用更为显著。

Health is an inherent requirement for promoting the all-round development of people and is a basic condition for economic and social development. From three aspects of human capital effect,consumption demand effect and productivity effect,this paper theoretically discusses the mechanism of health expenditure affecting the quality of economic growth. Based on the panel data of 31 provincial administrative regions in China from 2010 to 2017,a health production function model is constructed to analyze the impact of health expenditure and its structural differences and regional differences on the quality of economic growth. The empirical results show that health expenditure has a significant effect on improving the quality of economic growth:every 1% increase in health expenditure,the quality of economic growth increases by about 0.06%;there are structural differences in health expenditure on improving the quality of economic growth,and government health expenditure plays a significant role in improving the quality of economic growth;there are regional differences in health expenditure on improving the quality of economic growth,and the effect of health expenditure on improving the quality of economic growth in western regions is more significant.