Structural Imbalance of Health Resource Allocation and Social Wel-fare Loss under the Trend of Population Aging
The allocation structure of medical resources directly affects the efficiency of the transformation of resources to medical and health service.The structural imbalance of health resources allocation in China not only affects the public health,but also restricts the public social welfare.In addition,the intensification of the population aging in China leads to the explosive growth of the demand for medical and health services,which forms a huge contrast with the fragmented service supply system under the structural imbalance of health resource allocation,resulting in an increasingly prominent contradiction between supply and demand,which will lead to greater economic and social costs.In this context,combining theoretical analysis,numeri-cal simulation and empirical test,this paper analyzes the internal mechanism of structural imbalance of health resource allocation affecting social welfare and the moderating effect of population aging on the relationship between the two.The results show that there is an optimal health resource allocation structure,under which the public social welfare can be maximized.In contrast with the optimal resource allocation structure,the structural imbalance of health resource allocation will cause the loss of social welfare.Meanwhile,population aging aggravates the social welfare loss caused by the structural imbalance in the allocation of health resources.Heterogeneity analysis shows that the construction of information infrastructure and the improve-ment of the density of medical and health institutions can reduce the social welfare loss caused by the struc-tural imbalance of health resource allocation,but the widening of urban-rural income gap will increase the welfare loss.The conclusions of this study have important implications for alleviating the structural imbalance of health resource allocation and promoting the construction of healthy China.
population agingstructural imbalance in the allocation of health resourcesthe social welfare
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维普
