TITLE:
An Empirical Study on the Coupling and Coordination of Health Investment, Resident Health and Economic Growth in Sichuan Province —Based on a Modified Coupling Model
AUTHORS:
Long Qian, Fei Chen
KEYWORDS:
Health Investment, Resident Health, Economic Growth, Coupling Model
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.13 No.3,
March
21,
2023
ABSTRACT: We
should calculate the coupling degree of medical investment, resident health and
economic growth in Sichuan Province, and make clear the coordinated development
of the aforementioned three factors. In that, the government was able to
formulate policies that feature the positive interaction and coordinated
development of regional medical investment, health and economy. Methods on index system
for the evaluation of health investment, resident health and economic growth
were constructed, and the coupling and coordination degree of the three systems
were empirically studied based on the entropy weight method, the coupling
coordination model and the gray correlation method. From the perspective of
time series, the overall coupling and coordination level of Sichuan Province is
relatively low, and the comprehensive development level of health investment
and economic growth system has lagged behind the resident health system; from
the perspective of spatial distribution characteristics, in 2019, the
coordinated development level of health investment resident health and economic growth coupling in
western Sichuan, southern Sichuan, northern Sichuan, eastern Sichuan and
northern Sichuan is in the primary coordination stage, but there is a lag in
the development of the health investment system between western Sichuan and
southern Sichuan, and there is a lag in the development of the economic growth
system between northern Sichuan and eastern Sichuan. From the analysis of gray
correlation degree, the main correlation factors are diverse. All in all, the overall coordination level of health investment,
resident health and economic growth in Sichuan Province is relatively low,
and in order to achieve its coordinated development, it is necessary to narrow
regional differences, formulate coordinated development strategies according to
local conditions, and improve the overall coordination level.