Co-integration relation between residents’ health and economic development in China
10.3969/j.issn.1674-2982.2015.12.013
- VernacularTitle:我国居民健康与经济发展的协整关系研究
- Author:
Chunlei HAN
;
Zhi YE
;
Kun HAN
;
Gaizhen JIA
;
Dahua LIU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Residents’ health;
Economic growth;
Entropy method;
Co-integration analysis;
Granger causality test
- From:
Chinese Journal of Health Policy
2015;8(12):67-71
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:This paper aims to explore the relationship between the residents’ health and economic de-velopment to provide a scientific basis which will promote the coordinated economy and health development. Methods:Adopting the entropy method, we could calculate the comprehensive health evaluation index. In combining the co-inte-gration and error correction models, we could analyze the long-term and short-term relationships between our country residents’ level of health since 2000 and the national macro-economic development information. The Granger causality test served as a good method used in testing the casual relationships. Results: The health and economic development has a co-integration relationship which is -0. 6216 in the short-term correction. The economic development extent is the Granger cause of residents’ health status. Conclusion:There is not only a long-term equilibrium, but also a short-term relationship between the residents’ health and economic development in our country. The economic growth pro-motes residents’ health status while the promotion of residents’ health to economic growth is not obvious.
