ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Health Economics
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1594104
This article is part of the Research TopicPublic Health Outcomes: The Role of Social Security Systems in Improving Residents' Health WelfareView all 33 articles
Impact of National Health City Campaign on Public Health in China
Provisionally accepted
- 1Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China
- 2Gannan University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China
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Establishing a national health city is an important national policy aimed at optimizing urban environment and improving residents' health. A rigorous evaluation of the policy's impact on China's public health is imperative. Such an evaluation would provide a scientific foundation for the continuous improvement of the policy and enhance the overall health of the population.Based on the panel data of 84 prefecture-level cities in China from 2011 to 2023, this study takes healthy cities as a quasi-natural experiment, and employs a DID model to deeply explore the impact of the National Health City Campaign (NHCC) on public health in China.The research indicates that the policy has led to a decline in mortality rates and has contributed to the enhancement of public health in China to a certain extent.The impact of the NHCC varies across different regions, economic development levels, and population sizes. In addition, this study determined that the NHCC is capable of achieving substantial enhancements in public health levels by promoting the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure. The impact of the sewage treatment rate on public health levels is found to be regulatory in nature.Discussion: This study is instrumental in enhancing public health policy, providing a theoretical foundation for the development of a healthy city, and plays a pivotal role in the promotion of the Healthy China Initiative.
Keywords: national health city, Public health level, DID model, PSM-DID model, Urban environmental governance
Received: 15 Mar 2025; Accepted: 21 Apr 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Songjiang Liu, Gannan University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China
Bingnan Guo, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China
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