The impact of medical infrastructure on regional innovation: An empirical analysis of China's prefecture-level cities

Wei, Feng; Yuan, Huixing

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122125

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“…Firstly, variations in the impact of digital economy development across regions on public health service efficiency highlight regional imbalances in digital economy application. In central regions, large-scale labor outflows hinder the conversion of digital dividends into improved elderly medical services efficiency, potentially exacerbating medical resource allocation disparities and widening the public health service gap 52 – 55 . Secondly, social media, a crucial component of the digital economy, has a dual effect on public health service efficiency.…”

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New evidence on the real role of digital economy in influencing public health efficiency

Zhao,

Wu,

Yan

et al. 2024

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In recent years, the rapid advancement of digital technology has supported the growth of the digital economy. The transformation towards digitization in the public health sector serves as a key indicator of this economic shift. Understanding how the digital economy continuously improves the efficiency of public health services and its various pathways of influence has become increasingly important. It is essential to clarify the impact mechanism of the digital economy on public health services to optimize health expenditures and advance digital economic construction. This study investigates the impact of digital economic development on the efficiency of public health services from a novel perspective, considering social media usage and urban–rural healthcare disparities while constructing a comprehensive index of digital economic development. The findings indicate that the digital economy reduces the efficiency of public health services primarily through two transmission mechanisms: the promotion of social media usage and the widening urban–rural healthcare gap. Moreover, these impacts and transmission pathways exhibit spatial heterogeneity. This study unveils the intrinsic connection and mechanisms of interaction between digital economic development and the efficiency of public health services, providing a theoretical basis and reference for government policy formulation. However, it also prompts further considerations on achieving synergy and interaction between the digital economy and public health services.

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New evidence on the real role of digital economy in influencing public health efficiency

Zhao,

Wu,

Yan

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“…Public service integration is essential for regional integration development [40]. The purpose of public service integration is to continuously optimize the supply of public services, improve the co-construction and sharing mechanism of public services, and promote the sharing of educational resources, cross-regional medical and health services, the joint development of cultural industries, and the interconnection of social security [41][42][43]. Therefore, the proportion of education expenditure, transportation construction expenditure, medical and health expenditure, and social security expenditure in fiscal expenditure were selected to assess the public service integration subsystem.…”

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Dynamic Analysis of Regional Integration Development: Comprehensive Evaluation, Evolutionary Trend, and Driving Factors

Huang,

Li,

Chen

et al. 2024

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Regional integration, as an essential measurement for solving unbalanced and uncoordinated regional development, plays an important role in achieving regional sustainable development. In this study, we aimed to construct a systematic research framework to facilitate the development of regional integration. Using 31 prefecture-level cities in the urban agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River (MYR-UA) as case sites, this study applied box plots, kernel density estimation, GIS visualization tools, Markov chains, and geographic detectors to reveal the dynamic spatiotemporal evolution and factors influencing regional integration from 2009 to 2018. The results indicate that the level of regional integration and its subsystem development is suboptimal in MYR-UA; the temporal characteristic shows an upward fluctuating trend, and the spatial distribution shows remarkable spatial correlation and clustering characteristics. Additionally, we found that the level of regional integration development in MYR-UA has both “path dependence” and “self-locking” effects, and the spatial lag type has a crucial impact on the degree of regional transfer stability. The dominant factors affecting regional integration development include the GDP per capita, economic openness, industrial structure, proportion of education expenditure in fiscal expenditure, urbanization rate, proportion of environmental investment in fiscal expenditure, population density, capital flow, information flow, and technology flow. Finally, based on the findings of this study, policy recommendations for promoting regional integration are proposed.

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The impact of medical infrastructure on regional innovation: An empirical analysis of China's prefecture-level cities

Cited by 5 publications

References 42 publications

New evidence on the real role of digital economy in influencing public health efficiency

New evidence on the real role of digital economy in influencing public health efficiency

Dynamic Analysis of Regional Integration Development: Comprehensive Evaluation, Evolutionary Trend, and Driving Factors

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