Social Network, Cognition and Participation in Rural Health Governance

Tang, Jiayi; Ruan, Haibo; Wang, Chao; Xu, Wenbin; Li, Changgui; Dong, Xuan

doi:10.3390/ijerph19052862

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“…Overall, China is a typical acquaintance society, and this characteristic is more prominent in rural areas, where residents are interconnected in a tight social network ( Hofstede, 2001 ; Zeng and Guo, 2016 ; Wang et al, 2022 ). Rural residents have smaller social networks and closer social ties, and they tend to make behavioral decisions in consideration of the opinions of their reference groups, and prefer to follow the existing social norms to determine their behavior ( Tang et al, 2022 ). While the frequency of communication between neighbors of urban residents is low ( Chai et al, 2017 ).…”

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Social norms and fertility intentions: Evidence from China

Liang

2022

Front. Psychol.

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China’s low fertility rates are a major concern across all sectors of society. Fertility is a major issue related to economy, society and family development. Based on social norms theory, this paper explores the influence of social norms on individuals’ fertility intentions from two perspectives: spatial proximity and social proximity. Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, we found that individual’s fertility intentions were influenced by social norms; both neighborhood social norms and group social norms had significant effects. The role of social norms in shaping individual fertility intentions varied by gender, hukou, and life course; specifically, men, rural residents, and married individuals were more significantly influenced by social norms. This study improves the theoretical framework of fertility decision making by arguing that in addition to macro and individual factors, social norms have a very important influence on fertility intentions. Our findings suggest that reshaping social norms regarding fertility is essential to enhance fertility rates in China.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Social norms and fertility intentions: Evidence from China

Liang

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Cognition is an important perspective for health behavior research ( 22 ). Residents' cognition represents residents' understanding of the health service information input or output by medical institutions ( 23 ). Residents' cognition is an important pivot between service accessibility and residents' choices of medical treatment.…”

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Where does residents' choice of primary medical treatment come from?—A logical analysis based on the perspective of service accessibility and residents' cognition

Wang

2022

Front. Public Health

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The uneven distribution of medical and health resources leads to changes in the choice of patients for medical treatment, which is the key to restrict the reform of medical services in China currently. Taking service accessibility and residents' cognition as the starting point, this study utilized the data from the questionnaire and applied logistic regression and mediation test. By taking service accessibility as an explanatory variable and residents' cognition as an intermediary variable, the study examined the differences between residents' choice of medical treatment at the primary and non-primary levels. Thus, the influencing factors of residents' choice of medical treatment at the primary level were explored. The research statistics came from questionnaires of 1,589 residents in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. The results showed that service accessibility and residents' cognition were significantly correlated with the residents' choice of primary medical treatment. Household registration, age, the signing situation with family doctors, hospital service fees, and distance to the hospital were positively related to residents' choice of primary medical treatment; while the reputation, scale, residents' income, and the reimbursement ratio of residents' medical insurance were negatively correlated with the choice. In addition, residents' cognition played an intermediary effect between service accessibility and the residents' choice of primary medical treatment. The signing situation with family doctors indirectly affected the choice of primary medical treatment through residents' cognition, and residents' cognition masked some negative influence of the reimbursement ratio of residents' medical insurance on the choice of primary medical treatment.

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“…IV must meet two basic requirements: first is correlation (IV are related to endogenous variables); and second is exclusivity (IV are not related to control variables, explained variables, and error terms). “District” meets the correlation requirements since households living in different districts have different energy consumption due to differences in energy resource endowments ( 53 , 54 ), thus “District” is related to “CEC.” Some literature believes that rural residents are healthier than urban residents, because of rural residents have a green lifestyle ( 55 ). Other studies have found that the health level of urban residents is higher than that of rural residents ( 56 ), which may be because cities have more convenient medical resources so as to get more health care.…”

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Household clean energy consumption and health: Theoretical and empirical analysis

Liang

Chandio

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Front. Public Health

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The impact of energy consumption on health has become a widely debated topic around the world. However, much of the current research on this topic lacks a theoretical basis. As a result, this paper employs both theoretical and empirical analysis to investigate the impact of household clean energy consumption on residents' health. First, based on the theories of health economics and energy economics, this paper believes that the usage of clean energy can improve the health of residents. Then, the sample for this study is comprised of data from the 2018 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, and the Order Probit Model is applied for the empirical analysis. The outcomes of basic regression, robustness testing, and the treatment of endogenous factors reveal that the usage of clean energy has greatly benefited the health of residents. Furthermore, the heterogeneity analysis shows that long-term use of clean energy greatly improved the health of non-religious people and had a more pronounced impact on the health of women and low-income residents. In addition, the mechanistic analysis indicates that subjective happiness and air quality played a partial mediating role in the impact of cleaner energy consumption on health. Finally, cleaner household energy reduced the prevalence of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, lung disease, asthma, and depression. The conclusion of this paper supports the view of some existing literature, and several policy recommendations are made based on the research findings.

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Social Network, Cognition and Participation in Rural Health Governance

Cited by 5 publications

References 51 publications

Social norms and fertility intentions: Evidence from China

Social norms and fertility intentions: Evidence from China

Where does residents' choice of primary medical treatment come from?—A logical analysis based on the perspective of service accessibility and residents' cognition

Household clean energy consumption and health: Theoretical and empirical analysis

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