The Impact of Internet Usage and Knowledge-Intensive Activities on Households’ Healthcare Expenditures

Benvenuto, Marco; Avram, Alexandru; Sambati, Francesco Vincenzo; Avram, Mărioara; Viola, Carmine

doi:10.3390/ijerph17124470

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“…Youngsters are nowadays more aware and concerned about public issues, including health. This is mainly due to the ability to absorb good information and knowledge, which depends more on education than age ( Stanovich and Cunningham, 1993 ; Edwards and Browne, 1995 ; Benvenuto et al., 2020 ).…”

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The more you know, the better you act? Institutional communication in Covid-19 crisis management

Viola

Toma

Manta

et al. 2021

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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The plurality of communication channels and the spread of fake news are widespread phenomena in today's society. Those constituted a serious risk during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis management, increasing the confusion among the population. This research aims at assessing the effectiveness of institutional communication amid the management of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis in Italy. We first assessed the phenomenon by building a structured theoretical background stressing the concepts of risk communication, community engagement, and health literacy, highlighting the dynamic and continuously changing scenario of communication strategies, also due to the spread of social media and the mutation of conventional media outlets. We sent a questionnaire to a sample of citizens to assess the impact of three predictors, i.e., the perceived communication, the perceived knowledge, and the perceived information. Based on answers, we built an ordered logit model assigning continuous intervals as values for the dependent variables. The observed results enhanced the crucial role of the phenomenon of health literacy and the impact of asymmetric information on the effectiveness of institutional communication. Education played a fundamental role in understanding communication pillars and building an individual consciousness about health risks prevention.

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The more you know, the better you act? Institutional communication in Covid-19 crisis management

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“…In the past two decades, the internet has developed rapidly. This rapid expansion has increased people's access to health information, especially residents in rural and remote areas [8][9][10]. As of March 2020, China had 904 million internet users, and the internet penetration rate was 64.5% [11]; further, 33.2% of Chinese adults have sought health information from the internet [12].…”

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The Impact of Internet Use on Health Outcomes of Rural Adults: Evidence from China

Zeng

Zhang

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Health, as basic human capital, is quite important for rural adults. However, in China, the average level of public health facilities and services is far lower in rural areas than in cities. In recent years, the internet has developed rapidly in China, and is increasingly affecting rural adults in a positive way. The purpose of this paper is to reveal whether internet use can be an effective way to improve the health of rural adults. This study used three rounds of data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) collected in 2014, 2016, and 2018. After eliminating samples due to attrition, the study included 7528 villagers who were at least 16 years old. A panel logit model was employed to conduct an empirical analysis. The results indicate that internet use has a significantly positive impact on health outcomes of rural adults. By using the internet, rural adults can find a large amount of health information, increase their social interaction, and maintain physical exercise to improve their health. Thus, it is important to promote internet use for health purposes in rural areas. In addition, internet use had heterogeneous effects on the health of rural adults of different genders, age groups, and education levels. Attention should be focused on highly educated older men to improve the effects of internet use.

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“…Referring to the studies of Avram et al [37], Deng et al [38], Xu et al [9], Huang et al [39], Deng et al [15], Benvenuto et al [40], and Ma and Zhu [41], this study uses household head variables (e.g., age and education level), family variables (e.g., the total area of cultivated land, family education and family assets), land variables (e.g., land ownership and land quality), and region variables (e.g., population density, distance, and geographical location) as control variables. The details of the control variables are listed in Table 1.…”

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Does Institutional Social Insurance Cause the Abandonment of Cultivated Land? Evidence from Rural China

Hongxin

et al. 2022

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At present, the world’s countryside needs to be revitalized urgently, and cultivated land is the critical factor in promoting the countryside’s revitalization. The reduction of uncultivated land contributes to the efficient use of rural land resources, contributing to global rural revitalization. This study uses data from 3938 Chinese peasant households conducted in 2014 and the OLS method to investigate the quantitative impact of institutional social insurance on cultivated land abandonment. The empirical results point to the following conclusions: (1) Institutional social insurance will weaken the social insurance function of land, which will lead to the generation of peasant households’ cultivated land abandonment. More specifically, for every 1% increase in the level of institutional social insurance of peasant households, the area of cultivated land abandoned increased by 0.002 mu; (2) The influence of institutional social insurance on peasant households’ cultivated land abandonment is heterogeneous, that is, endowment insurance can weaken the social insurance function of land more than medical insurance, and households with a higher proportion of pensioners are more likely to abandon cultivated land. This study’s conclusions may help understand the relationship between institutional and non-institutional social insurance and provide a reference for the effective use of cultivated land resources in the global rural revitalization.

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The Impact of Internet Usage and Knowledge-Intensive Activities on Households’ Healthcare Expenditures

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

The more you know, the better you act? Institutional communication in Covid-19 crisis management

The more you know, the better you act? Institutional communication in Covid-19 crisis management

The Impact of Internet Use on Health Outcomes of Rural Adults: Evidence from China

Does Institutional Social Insurance Cause the Abandonment of Cultivated Land? Evidence from Rural China

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