Research Article
Do Economic Growth Targets Affect Health Service Supply ——Empirical Evidence from China's Provincial Panel Data
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.1-9-2023.2338742, author={Qing Zhu and Hao Lv}, title={Do Economic Growth Targets Affect Health Service Supply ------Empirical Evidence from China's Provincial Panel Data}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Public Management, Digital Economy and Internet Technology, ICPDI 2023, September 1--3, 2023, Chongqing, China}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICPDI}, year={2023}, month={11}, keywords={economic growth target provision of health services inverted u shape fiscal decen-tralization healthy china 2030}, doi={10.4108/eai.1-9-2023.2338742} }- Qing Zhu
Hao Lv
Year: 2023
Do Economic Growth Targets Affect Health Service Supply ——Empirical Evidence from China's Provincial Panel Data
ICPDI
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.1-9-2023.2338742
Abstract
Expanding the supply of health services is the basic direction of promoting the con-struction of "Healthy China 2030". Based on China's provincial panel data from 2007 to 2019, this paper demonstrates an "inverted U-shaped" relationship between economic growth targets and health service provision, with the central and western regions more likely to favor productive expenditures over livelihood expenditures under the con-straints. Fiscal decentralization plays a moderating role, and the scale of government health expenditure plays a mediating role. The government should set reasonable economic growth targets, adopt differentiated policies, optimize the decentralization of expenditure, and increase the supply of health services.