The Mediating Role of Public Health between Environmental Policy Tools and Economic Development

Xu, Hui; Pan, Wei; Meng, Xin; Hu, Cheng; Pan, Wei; Dai, Wan-Qiang; Huang, Guocheng

doi:10.3390/en15030835

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“…Policy tools, also known as policy instruments, are instruments designed to encourage or enable people to take actions they might not have otherwise taken, or to overcome obstacles to policy‐relevant actions (Schneider & Ingram, 1990). Policy tools have been an important dimension of exploration and promotion of policies, as exemplified by studies such as Xu et al (2022), which investigated the relationship between environmental policy tools and economic development, examined the mediating effect of public health. Chai et al (2020) also examined the structure and function of China's environmental policy based on policy tool theory.…”

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The Mining of China's Policies against COVID‐19 from Policy Targets and Policy Tools Perspectives

Huo,

Li,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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In response to the global disaster of COVID‐19, every country has implemented various policies. China, as a developing country, has issued policies to combat COVID‐19 that could serve as a reference for future pandemic prevention and control efforts, and may offer lessons for national governance. This paper employs bibliometric methods, text mining, and network analysis to mine and characterize the evolution of China's policies against COVID‐19. Specifically, we extract policy targets and identify the policy tools from each policy, cross‐compare the policy tools used for different policy targets, and characterize their evolution during the pandemic. Our findings show that policy targets have shifted over different stages to balance epidemic prevention with economic development. We also identify several shortcomings in distribution and utilization of policy tools. To improve policy implementation, it is crucial to align policy targets with appropriate policy tools and ensure a balanced and functional approach to policy implementation.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Mining of China's Policies against COVID‐19 from Policy Targets and Policy Tools Perspectives

Huo,

Li,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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“…( 13 ) suggested that inefficient budget allocation to healthcare has a significant impact on CHE. However, intensified efforts can help achieve universal health coverage for better health outcomes and regulations ( 14 ) expressed that regulatory institutions have a substantial impact on the health of individuals ( 32 ) demonstrated in the results that command and policy tools do not have enough significant associations with health outcomes as economic incentive policies ( 33 ) observed the influence of regulatory authority on ease of business ( 34 ) explored the influence of RL on the efficiency of microfinance. Likewise ( 35 ), examined the role of RL in capital market development ( 36 ) analyzed the behavior of RL on foreign investments and determined a positive association between them ( 37 ) examined the variable RL and suggested that sticking to the RL aids in mitigating carbon emissions ( 38 ) explained that the role of integrated policies and institutions has a significant impact on health expenditures ( 39 ) observed the RL principle's substantial influence on the expenses of health ( 40 ) examined the influence of institutional quality on the economic development of the country.…”

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Health expenditures, environmental quality, and economic development: State-of-the-art review and findings in the context of COP26

Xing

Liu

2022

Front. Public Health

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There are numerous factors that affect human health. Among others, environmental degradation, bad governance, and extensive economic growth are regarded as more destructive for health-related issues. To explore the nexus of the said factors and extend the scholarly literature, the current study aims to analyze the influence of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, governance indicators, and gross domestic product (GDP) on human health expenditures—captured by domestic health expenditures and capital health expenditures. Specifically, this study contrasted variables including regulatory quality (RQ), rule of law (RL), GDP, GHG emissions, and human capital (HC) with that of human health expenditure. Covering the period from 1996 to 2020, this study uses time series specifications in the case of China, which is one of the largest pollution-emitting economies across the globe. The empirical results found that the long-run equilibrium relationship exists between the variables. For the long-run coefficients, this study utilizes the fully modified ordinary least square, dynamic ordinary least square, and canonical cointegration regression, suggesting that economic development and RQ are adversely affecting human health expenditure. However, GHG emissions, RQ, and HC significantly improve human health by increasing health expenditure in China. Based on the empirical results, policies are suggested regarding human health improvement, improved governance quality, and environmental sustainability. The study discusses the empirical conclusions and implications as per COP26 declarations.

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“…However, the impacts of environmental regulation on public health cannot be neglected ( 22 ). The environmental regulation policies are a “win-win” situation that favors public health and economic factors ( 23 , 24 ).…”

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Does environmental regulation improve public health? Evidence from China's Two Control Zones policy

Yang

Liu

Yan

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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Improving public health is the premise of sustainable human development and an essential condition of economic growth. However, increasing severe environmental pollution poses a threat to public health. Implementing environmental regulation policy has become a meaningful way to control environmental pollution and the basis and guarantee for achieving public health. This paper aims to study the impact of environmental regulation on public health. The Two Control Zones (TCZ) policy is the earliest and stricter environmental regulation in China. Based on the policy experiment of TCZ, this paper analyzes the role of TCZ policy in improving public health using the DID model and data from 112 cities. The study finds that the TCZ policy can significantly improve public health, and this improvement effect was continuous and lagging. The results of benchmark regression show that the implementation of the TCZ policy has reduced the incidence rate of respiratory diseases in TCZ areas by 5.7%. When considering city heterogeneity in terms of economic and geographical conditions, the study further found that the impact of improvement is largest for cities in more heavily non-provincial capital and central and western regions, respectively. In addition, the results of mediating test show that TCZ policy improves public health by reducing environmental pollution. Our research fills the gap in the literature on the micro effects of environmental regulation policy on public health in developing countries. The government should prioritize environmental pollution control through reasonable environmental regulation policies. The government should strengthen environmental information disclosure to remind the public to deal with air pollution. The government and enterprises also should take various environmental protection measures to reduce air pollution emissions.

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The Mediating Role of Public Health between Environmental Policy Tools and Economic Development

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

The Mining of China's Policies against COVID‐19 from Policy Targets and Policy Tools Perspectives

The Mining of China's Policies against COVID‐19 from Policy Targets and Policy Tools Perspectives

Health expenditures, environmental quality, and economic development: State-of-the-art review and findings in the context of COP26

Does environmental regulation improve public health? Evidence from China's Two Control Zones policy

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