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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Health Economics
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1513173
This article is part of the Research Topic Sustainable and Mission-oriented Innovation in Economic Systems and Governance for Equitable Global Health and Wellbeing View all 29 articles
New-Type Urbanization and Regional Public Health: Mechanisms and Effects 1
Provisionally accepted- 1 Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
- 2 Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China
- 3 Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
New-type urbanization (NTU) in China not only effectively promotes socio-economic transformation, but also a significant driving force for the coordinated development of social and environmental demands of regions. Using data in China from 2007 to 2018, this study examines the effects and mechanisms of NTU on regional public health (RPH) by constructing panel fixed-effects, threshold effect, moderated-effects and spatial spillover model. Findings are as follows: The NTU has a significant role in promoting RPH. Threshold effects indicate that there are threshold effects for employment density and industrial structure sophistication, respectively. Socio-economic agglomeration plays an important moderating role in this relationship, as evidenced by a significant substitution relationship between economic agglomeration and NTU in affecting RPH, and population agglomeration improves the promotional effect. Within the eastern, central and western regions, NTU presents a positive impact on RPH, with increasing degrees of influence. However, within the economically developed regions, the effect is non-significant. The impact of NTU on RPH shows significant spatial spillover effects, with indirect effects being greater than direct effects, and whether or not adjacent is the main factor in the inhibitory effect of NTU on RPH.
Keywords: New-type urbanization 1, economic agglomeration 2, population agglomeration 3, regional public health 4, spatial spillovers 5
Received: 18 Oct 2024; Accepted: 02 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Wang, Luo, Liang and Ning. 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:
Jinfang Wang, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
Caiwang Ning, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330029, Jiangxi, China
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