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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Environmental Health and Exposome
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1410359

The Impact of Industrial Synergistic Agglomeration on Urban Public Health

Provisionally accepted
Di Qi Di Qi 1Wenhan Xu Wenhan Xu 2*
  • 1 Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
  • 2 Nanjing Audit University, Nanjing, China

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    Selecting 283 prefecture-level cities and above in China from 2003 to 2020 as research samples, this paper primarily employs the Generalized Spatial Two-Stage Least Squares (GS2SLS) method to systematically explore the impact of industrial synergistic agglomeration on urban public health and its mechanisms. It particularly examines the heterogeneous impacts of green industry agglomeration models and traditional industry agglomeration models on urban public health, arriving at the following main conclusions: (1) There exists a significant positive spatial effect on urban public health in China, with cities influencing the public health of their neighboring cities in the same manner. ( 2) Compared to single industry agglomeration, industrial synergistic agglomeration has a more significant promotive effect on urban public health. (3) Industrial synergistic agglomeration affects urban public health through population agglomeration effects, media dissemination effects, and income growth effects. (4) The green industry synergistic agglomeration model is more beneficial to improving urban public health than the traditional industry synergistic agglomeration model.

    Keywords: industrial synergistic agglomeration, Public Health, spatial effect, Population agglomeration, policy

    Received: 19 Apr 2024; Accepted: 26 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Qi and Xu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Wenhan Xu, Nanjing Audit University, Nanjing, China

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