Spatial Agglomeration of Health Industry and the Improvement of Residents'Health Level: Based on the Perspective of Threshold of Agglomeration and Spatial Spillovers / 中国卫生经济

ABSTRACT

Objective: To analyze the current non-linear and spatial dependence of health industry clustering and residents' health level in China. Methods: Using the panel data of China from 2002 t0 2017, the panel threshold model and the spatial Dubin model were constructed to conduct empirical tests. Results and Conclusion: Based on the internal perspective of the region, it was found that whether the health industry cluster would inevitably promote the improvement of residents' health level was bound by the threshold of agglomeration scale. Only when the agglomeration scale was in the median interval of [1.209, 1.763], the output effectiveness of the health industry cluster was more significant; based on the spatial spillover perspective, the positive health "spill effect" caused by the accumulation of health and health industries in the surrounding areas had made compensation on the “health short board” of the health and health industry in the region although the health and industrial clusters in the region had not made significant contributions to the improvement of the health of local residents.