The relationship between rural environmental quality and farmers'health cost
Based on the data from 2001 to 2018,the following results were obtained:the results of meas-uring the production environment,ecological environment and living environment by using the entropy method indi-cated that the rural environmental quality in China showed a significant upward trend of volatility,and the health costs for farmers had a characteristic of continuous rise according to the per capita medical service demand;the empirical analysis of fixed effect and threshold regression found that there were both reverse and positive relation-ships between rural environmental quality and farmers'health cost;the level of agricultural development,the ag-ing of population and the government's support for medical services increased significantly the demand of farmers for medical services.Promoting the environment-friendly transformation of agricultural production,expanding the scale of"three products and one standard"products,perfecting the construction of rural medical service guarantee system,and increasing non-agricultural income are of great significance to improving rural environmental quality,building beautiful and livable countryside,and promoting the process of rural ecological revitalization.
Rural environmental qualityHealth costs for farmersIncome effectHealth depreciation effect