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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Policy
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1522971
Quantitative Analysis of Mental and Spiritual Policy Texts Relevant for Ageing Well in China
Provisionally accepted
Liyan Zhang 1,2
Mingyang Qin 1,2*- 1 School of Law and Politics of LiaoNing Normal University, Dalian, China
- 2 Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China
The policies related to spiritual elderly care issued by the state since the 18th National Congress were selected as the research object, and a two-dimensional analysis framework composed of policy tools and policy objectives was established. 71 policy documents were analyzed by the content analysis method, and 285 analysis units were frequency counted to analyze the value tendency and inherent deficiencies of the current spiritual elderly care policies in depth. The policy tool dimension is characterized by the uncoordinated internal structure of supply-type tools, the varying level of environment-type tools, and the relative shortage of demand-type tools, and there is a gap in the degree of policy emphasis in the policy objective dimension. In the light of the policy feedback theory, we explore the policy recommendations that are conducive to promoting the development of mental elderly care from the perspective of the resource effect, the explanatory effect, the evolutionary effect, and the learning effect in turn.
Keywords: Spiritual elderly care, policy texts, policy tools, Policy feedback, Ageing, Mental Health
Received: 23 Nov 2024; Accepted: 10 Mar 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Mingyang Qin, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, 116029, Liaoning Province, China
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