Measurement of the Chinese's social health and its influencing factors:Based on MIMIC struc-tural equation model / 中国卫生政策研究

ABSTRACT

In order to measure the current social health status of China,this article uses the method of factor analysis to measure the social health of Chinese population based on the data of CGSS2012,which has a mean score of 3.13 and the factor loading weighted score of 8.03. The social health of residents in economically developed prov-inces such as the six provinces Shanghai, Tianjin, Beijing, Liaoning, Zhejiang and Guangdong ranked among the first to sixth from the bottom,which demonstrated that there was an opposite trend between the people's social health and economy growth. The results of the MIMIC model indicate that the male,married,elder,pension or medical in-sured people and participating in social donations and voluntary activities would have higher social health level. The education and income have a reversed U-shaped relationship with the social health. This article also uses the CLDS2014 data to duplicate the above research, which indicates a robust result. Based on the above findings, this article finally proposes some policy suggestions to promote the social health of Chinese people.