The Research On The Statistical Measurement Of Health Capital Of Chinese Residents

In modern economy,human capital is recognized as an important engine of economic growth,which plays a key role in improving the quality of economic development and narrowing the regional development gap.Education capital and health capital are the two core elements of human capital,which respectively describe the productivity and profitability improvement of workers brought by human capital investment from two dimensions of education level and health level.Since the 1960s,educational capital has been discussed extensively and deeply in academic circles,while health capital has been placed on the edge of human capital research for a long time.The reason is that compared with the education capital which can be directly measured by the agent indicators such as education years,the effective statistical measurement of health capital faces more challenges.In recent years,with the general improvement of the health level of the world's population,the economic role of health capital continues to be highly concerned by the international community,and the data demand for health capital is increasingly urgent.Obviously,the statistical measurement of health capital and the identification of its economic effects can not only supplement and improve the existing human capital research focusing on education capital,but also help to find new support points for the sustainable development of high-quality economy.China has a large population and a large amount of human capital.It has great potential and economic value to improve the level of human capital through health capital investment.Carrying out the research of health capital statistics and calculation will help us to understand the impact of health capital on national welfare and economic and social development,and will play an important role in improving the quality and sustainability of China's economic development.With the increasing of population aging,the population dividend in China is disappearing gradually.Improving the level of people's healthy capital can promote economic growth,which can be an important starting point to achieve high-quality economic development in China.In order to speed up the construction of health human resources,promote the development of health industry and further release the economic capacity of health capital,the outline of "Healthy China 2030" plan issued by the State Council in 2016 tries to incorporate the key element of health into the overall planning of formulating various macro policies.The proposal of this strategy provides a powerful impetus and a good opportunity for the construction and improvement of China's health index system,the promotion of the development of national accounts,and the promotion of health capital research.In view of the great significance of health capital to China's economic development and national health,this paper conducts a special study on the statistical measurement of health capital of Chinese residents,and then studies the change characteristics of health capital of Chinese residents from its change trend and provincial differences,and finally reveals the mechanism and impact intensity of health capital on economic development in China.The theoretical significance of this study is to promote the cross research of economic statistics and health economics from the perspective of health capital.Its practical significance is to examine the health level of Chinese residents and the aging population from the perspective of "healthy China",to examine the economic development process from the perspective of healthy capital,to provide data support and decision-making reference for the implementation of "Healthy China 2030" strategy based on the measurement of healthy capital,and to realize "innovation,coordination,green,opening and sharing" in China "High quality development provides useful ideas.The paper is divided into seven chapters,the structure of which is as follows:Chapter 1:Introduction.As the overall outline of the paper,first of all,it introduces the background and research significance of the topic,and then systematically reviews and combs the representative literature in the field of health capital.On this basis,the research ideas and methods are established,the overall research framework is given,and the main content and structure arrangement of the paper are clarified.At last,the research difficulties and innovations are explained.Chapter 2:The theoretical framework of health capital.The purpose of this chapter is to build the basic analysis framework of health capital research mechanism.First of all,from the perspective of micro individual,this paper expounds the effect of health capital on personal utility,physical health,labor and other aspects.This paper introduces the key parameters of the theoretical model of health capital and points out its influence on health capital.Then,from the macro point of view,it analyzes the role of health capital in economic growth,and clarifies the relationship between health capital,material capital,education capital and other factors of production.Finally,the paper analyzes the economic mechanism of health capital from micro to macro based on the relationship between them,which provides the theoretical basis and thinking for the measurement of health capital and the analysis of its economic effect.Chapter 3:The measurement of Chinese residents' health capital stock and flow.Based on the health capital accounting method under the concept system of inclusive wealth of the United Nations,this chapter constructs a theoretical model to clarify the measurement logic of health capital,and provides the theoretical basis for the health capital accounting method.Then,based on the statistical life value method and the life annuity theory of actuarial model,we measure the stock and flow of health capital of Chinese residents,and discuss the change mode and evolution trend of health capital in different periods.The calculation results of this chapter can provide useful ideas and solid data support for the analysis of subsequent chapters.Chapter 4:The estimation of endogenous depreciation rate of Chinese residents' health capital and the analysis of its causes.Depreciation rate of health capital is the core parameter of health capital estimation,which is very important to ensure the result of health capital measurement.This chapter estimates the depreciation rate of Chinese residents' health capital based on the perpetual inventory method,analyzes various influencing factors,and extrapolates the per capita health capital stock and flow in 2014-2018 by using the depreciation rate estimation results,so as to update and expand the health capital measurement sequence given in Chapter 3.Chapter 5:The provincial difference and spatial correlation effect of health capital.This chapter estimates the per capita health capital stock of each province based on the official macro statistical data to compare the provincial differences of health capital.Based on the theory of spillover effect of human capital,this paper puts forward the hypothesis of healthy capital space and establishes the theoretical model of healthy capital space with the thought of statistical life value method.Finally,the spatial correlation of health capital is tested based on the model,and the spatial correlation effect of health capital is analyzed by different spatial weight matrix.Chapter 6:The impact of Chinese residents' health capital on economic development.Based on the theory of health capital endogenous economic growth,this chapter analyzes the mechanism of health capital on economic growth.First of all,the contribution of all kinds of capital investment to economic growth is measured,the relationship between health capital,material capital and education capital is examined,and the factor substitution elasticity among all kinds of investment factors is calculated.Then,it calculates the production efficiency of health capital in different provinces and regions,compares the differences and influencing factors of the production efficiency of health capital in different periods and regions,and gives corresponding policy suggestions based on the current high-quality development concept of China's economy and the requirements of "healthy China 2030" strategy.Chapter 7:Conclusion and prospect.This chapter summarizes the research results of the previous chapters,further refines the main conclusions from the theoretical and empirical analysis,clarifies the policy space of health capital,and prospects the future research in this field.The main conclusions and understandings of this paper are as follows:Firstly,in the past two decades,the per capita health capital of Chinese residents has been increasing slowly.On the one hand,the increase of the risk rate of health death has made the"hedonism" wage age earlier,and the marginal output of health input has declined;on the other hand,the increasing aging population has led to the insufficient total health capital of young people,and the increase of the proportion of old people has led to the health Kang capital growth is weak.Secondly,the depreciation rate of health capital of Chinese residents is affected by age,gender,health investment and other factors:the depreciation rate of men of the same age is higher than that of women;with the growth of age,the depreciation rate does not increase significantly in the middle and young age,but increases rapidly in the old age;after including the risk factors of long life,the depreciation rate of health capital slows down,and the depreciation rate shows more significant gender differences Women have a higher risk of longevity and a lower depreciation rate.Thirdly,there are obvious differences and spatial correlation effects in the health capital of all provinces and regions in China:the market potential of health capital in developed regions is high,attracting large-scale population inflow and health capital rising,which promotes the economic development of such regions;however,it also brings negative effects to the underdeveloped regions with health capital outflow.Fourthly,as China's economy gradually turns to high-quality development,the role of healthy capital in economic growth is increasing.Although it is difficult for health capital and education capital to replace each other,their replacement effect on material capital is gradually strengthened.Under the framework of endogenous economic growth including healthy capital,it is found that there is still a certain distortion between China's economic development level and technical efficiency,and there is still a large space for economic output efficiency to rise.Policy suggestions and research prospects:to promote the strategy of healthy China,we should not only start with the reform of the medical and health system and the improvement of the basic medical and health service ability,but also enhance the residents' sense of health and happiness from the perspective of individuals,comprehensively improve the urban and rural environmental health,concentrate on the treatment of soil,air,water and other environmental pollution,and expand the healthy city and healthy city In order to fully release the healthy economic capacity of young people,we need to improve the living environment of residents,improve the two child policy,and increase the proportion of young people.In future research,based on the existing research on health capital,we can further investigate the relationship between health capital and labor supply,income distribution,medical and health policies,deepen the internal relationship between various capital input factors,and make a more in-depth analysis of China's high-quality economic development and the implementation of China's health strategy from the perspective of health capital.