A Study On The Influence Of Regional Factors On Residents' Health Behavior

With the rapid development of the economy and society,people's health awareness and health consumption level have improved continuously,and the health industry has flourished.Advanced Internet technology has also made e-Health a new field of health,and people can use the Internet to obtain more health information and enjoy health services more conveniently.Both the increasing demand for health and the ever-changing health behavior are inseparable from the dramatical changes in the economy and society.At the same time,the environmental problems accompanied by economic and social development have become increasingly serious.Natural environmental factors,such as air pollution,have a huge impact on residents'health status and health behavior.Social-economic and environmental factors interact with each other and constitute the regional environment in which people live.To explore the regional factors that influence residents' health behavior is beneficial to the promotion of public health,which is in line with the strategic needs of "Healthy China".Taking the usage of slimming apps as an example of residents'health behavior,this paper collects the registered user data of Chinese largest mobile slimming application,BooHee Technology,and analyzes the influence of social-economic factors and environmental factors on residents'health behavior.First,based on the cross-sectional data of 260 cities,this paper uses principal component regression and quantile regression to analyze the correlations between residents' health behavior level in different cities and 13 social-economic indicators.Then based on the 215-day long panel data of registered users in 31 cities,the least squares dummy variable regression is conducted to analyze the impact of air pollution,which is an important environmental factor,on residents'daily health behavior.The empirical results are summarized below.(1)Economic development status,living conditions,informatization and innovation level are the main social-economic factors which affect residents' health behavior.Overall,economic development status and informatization and innovation level have a significant impact on residents'health behavior participation on all quantiles,especially in low quantile;living conditions have no significant impact on low quantile but have a significant impact on the median quantile and above.(2)Air pollution has a significantly negative impact on daily health behavior and residents will reduce their daily health behavior when air quality gets bad.And this negative effect is more intense and longer on non-workdays.This paper finds that the development of economy and society has a two-sided impact on residents' health behavior.On the one hand,the development of economy,the improvement of informatization and innovation,and living conditions will promote residents' health behavior;on the other hand,environmental pollution accompanied by it will hinder residents' health behavior.Therefore,we must coordinate the relationship between economic and social development and environmental protection,create a good regional environment and build a green and healthy society to promote public health.