Digital economy: an effective path for promoting residents' health in China

Front Public Health. 2023 Nov 22:11:1303541. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1303541. eCollection 2023.

Abstract

The primary prerequisite for socioeconomic growth is good health, hence promoting residents' health is a vital objective of public policies. It is yet up for debate whether or not the digital economy (DE), which will be crucial to future economic growth, will eventually result in improvements in residents' health. Utilizing the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) data in 2020, we explore how the DE affects residents' health. The findings reveal that residents' health is greatly enhanced by the DE. The eastern region sees a more dramatic improvement in residents' health as a result of the DE. Additionally, the DE can improve residents' health through the promotion of regional green development. The study's findings add to our knowledge of how the DE impacts residents' health while also offering recommendations for achieving universal health.

Keywords: CFPS2020; China; digital economy; green development; residents' health.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • China
  • Economic Development*
  • Public Policy*

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. The National Natural Science Foundation of China (71903105 and 71803101), the MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences (20YJCZH249), the Department of Science and Technology of Shandong Province (ZR202211300436), the Taishan Young Scholar Program of Shandong Province (tsqn202306167), and the Science and Technology Support Plan for Youth Innovation of Shandong Province (2022RW032) provides support for this study.