Political regimes, income and health: Evidence from sub-national comparative method

Rosenberg, Dina; Козлов, В. А.; Libman, Alexander

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.02.001

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“…The impact of governance on health and health inequality has also attracted attention from scholars and governments (Olafsdottir et al, 2014 ). Health is considered a comprehensive social issue requiring not only medical intervention but also social policy assistance (Cáceres & Mendoza, 2012 ; Rosenberg et al, 2019 ). In the case of COVID-19, good social governance helped to address the challenge of the virus’ transmission (Ortega & Orsini, 2020 ; Wang et al, 2020 ).…”

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An Integrated Analysis of Social, Economic, and Environmental Indicators’ Effects on Public Health and Health Inequality Globally: From the Perspective of Vulnerability

Yang

Geng

2022

Soc Indic Res

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Public health and health inequality have been widely researched as they are essential for human development and social justice. Although factors influencing public health and health inequality have been explored, an integrated and comprehensive analysis of social, economic, and environmental indicators’ effects on public health and health inequality globally is yet to be conducted. The current study addresses this gap by using a theoretical framework that integrates these three dimensions, examining their effects on public health and health inequality from the perspective of vulnerability. Considering the spatial heterogeneity across countries, spatial econometric models and geographically weighted regressions were conducted for the examination of these effects. Our findings reveal the social indicators of urbanisation ratio, social education level, and social governance capacity had positive effects on public health promotion and health inequality elimination globally. Besides these, environmental risk and economic capacity had relatively low impacts on health inequality. Further, the geographically weighted regression results indicate that vulnerability’s effects on public health and health inequality varied significantly across countries. This integrated analysis provides national policymakers with a new perspective of vulnerability for public health promotion and health inequality reduction.

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An Integrated Analysis of Social, Economic, and Environmental Indicators’ Effects on Public Health and Health Inequality Globally: From the Perspective of Vulnerability

Yang

Geng

2022

Soc Indic Res

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“…[176][177][178] Gauri and Khaleghian (2002) 179 show that democracy has lower immunization coverage rates than autocracy and offer three explanations: (a) the demand for curative medical care is stronger than that for immunization, and democracies are responsive to the demand; (b) public health agencies that favor vertical programs such as immunization are given more autonomy in autocracies; and (c) communist regimes are inclined toward public programs such as immunization services. The study of mortality from diseases by Rosenberg and colleagues (2018) 180 is interesting because it investigates the withincountry variation of political regimes using the case of the Russian Federation. Their empirical results imply that autocracies are superior to competitive regimes in dealing with health problems in poor regions, and vice versa in rich regions.…”

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Does Democracy Matter for Public Health?

Lee

2022

International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Heal

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This study examines the effect of democracy on public health by using panel data of 188 countries over the period 1972–2019. We use various regression methods, such as pooled ordinary least squares, fixed effects, dynamic generalized method of moments (GMM), a split-sample method, and a quadratic model to address econometric issues. The pooled regression supports the positive effect on health, but it does not exist in low-income countries, which can be explained by the threshold effect. The fixed effects regression confirms the positive impact on infant mortality but not on life expectancy, which illustrates the historical and cumulative effect of democracy on life expectancy. The non-linear regression finds a U-shaped relationship between democracy and infant mortality, which is consistent with the fixed effects regression result of the positive effect on mortality in the low-income group. The dynamic GMM regression shows the expected strong relationship between previous health and current health status. Overall, the regression analysis supports the positive effect of democracy on public health.

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“…10 For example, Nistotskaya & Shakhunova (2018). Kozlov et al 2018). These characteristics may, to some extent, matter both for the quality of governance and for economic growth.…”

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Providing Goods and Votes? Federal Elections and the Quality of Local Governance in Russia

Zavadskaya

Shilov

2021

Europe-Asia Studies

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Does electoral support affect the quality of public goods provision? In this study, we explore the variety of governance patterns on the level of Russian municipalities from 2012 to 2018, We estimate the effects of budget autonomy and electoral loyalty during federal elections on public goods provision and explore whether elected heads provide better services. Our findings suggest that since elected heads have limited capacity to provide better services, electoral loyalty does not uniformly result in improved public goods provision in municipalities.IN 2017, THE RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION AND THE FEDERAL AGENCY Rosavtodor launched a longterm federal programme aimed at improving transportation networks in major urban agglomerations, labelled 'Safe and High-quality Roads' (Bezopasnye i kachestvennye dorogi). This project was to run from 2017 until 2025. 1 About a quarter of Russian agglomerations with a population of more than 500,000 residents were selected to participate in the programme. The party of power, United Russia (Edinaya Rossiya), announced the programme in 2016 as one of its priority partisan projects alongside others dealing with the urban environment, rural 1 'Federal'nyi proekt "Bezopasnye dorogi'", United Russia website, available at: https://proekty.er.ru/node/6588, accessed

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Political regimes, income and health: Evidence from sub-national comparative method

Cited by 17 publications

References 98 publications

An Integrated Analysis of Social, Economic, and Environmental Indicators’ Effects on Public Health and Health Inequality Globally: From the Perspective of Vulnerability

An Integrated Analysis of Social, Economic, and Environmental Indicators’ Effects on Public Health and Health Inequality Globally: From the Perspective of Vulnerability

Does Democracy Matter for Public Health?

Providing Goods and Votes? Federal Elections and the Quality of Local Governance in Russia

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