Public Health Services, Health Human Capital, and Relative Poverty of Rural Families

Yingya Yang, Liangliang Zhou, Chongmei Zhang, Xin Luo, Yihan Luo and Wei Wang ()
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Yingya Yang: Business School, Anyang Institute of Technology, West Section of Huanghe Avenue, Anyang 455000, China
Liangliang Zhou: School of Mathematics and Information Science, Anyang Institute of Technology, West Section of Huanghe Avenue, Anyang 455000, China
Chongmei Zhang: College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, 211 Huimin Rd., Chengdu 130062, China
Xin Luo: College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, 211 Huimin Rd., Chengdu 130062, China
Yihan Luo: College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, 211 Huimin Rd., Chengdu 130062, China
Wei Wang: College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, 211 Huimin Rd., Chengdu 130062, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 17, 1-14

Abstract: With the successful completion of the battle against poverty, after 2020, the focus and difficulty of China’s poverty governance will change from solving absolute poverty to alleviating relative poverty. Analyzing and studying the alleviation of relative poverty from the perspective of public health services is in line with the current needs of consolidating and expanding poverty alleviation in China, and it is also of great significance to building a long-term solution mechanism for relative poverty. In this study, basic panel data were constructed by using the data of five CFPS surveys in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018 and matched with the macro data. The correlation between public health services and rural households’ relative poverty was also analyzed by using logit regression analysis and the KHB mediation effect decomposition method. The results show that (1) public health services play a significant role in promoting the accumulation of health human capital, improving individual feasible ability, and alleviating the relative poverty of rural families; (2) the improvement of public health services is conducive to the alleviation of the relative poverty of rural families; (3) we should continue to increase investment in public health care in underdeveloped areas and strive to promote the balanced development of public health services, so as to further consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty eradication.

Keywords: public health services; healthy human capital; relative poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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