scholarly journals HEALTH AND REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataliya Nedelcheva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Health Tourism ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Life Improvement ◽  
Quality Of Health Services

Maintaining a level of health services and creating conditions for sustainable development is a mandatory societal and ethical imperative, given the multifaceted and multi-layered influence. The thesis of the study is that the quality of health services and the resource potential of the regions can be used as an opportunity to bring the economy of the regions to life and improve the quality of life in them. The aim of the report is to reflect the link between the level of health and the development of the economy of the regions. To this end, the report draws attention to how improving the quality of health services and the high-tech health process can affect the region's economy and use health tourism as a tool for regional economic development and quality of life improvement.

scholarly journals Bentuk Penerapan Eko-Efisiensi pada Rantai Nilai di Klaster Batik Laweyan, Kota Surakarta

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 287
Author(s):  
Nurrizki Dwianto Widodo
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
Industrial Cluster ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Collective Efficiency

<p class="Abstract"><em></em><em>Eco-efficiency is suitable to be applied on </em><em>batik production</em><em> cluster</em><em>,</em><em> because it can </em><em>synergize</em><em> economic and environmental aspects. Application of eco-efficiency will lead to competitiveness, environmental sustainability, and quality of life better. Batik Laweyan cluster is a cluster that not only has great potential in regional economic development but also potentially pollute the environment. Application of eco-efficiency in an industrial cluster can be seen from the value chain that occurs. Eco-efficiency also cannot be applied without the aid of relevant stakeholders and cluster activities such as collective efficiency.</em></p>

Five Novel Insights for Regional Economies and Company Strategies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Myles Shaver
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Talent Retention

This chapter identifies five unique insights from this research that advance current discourse about regional economic development, and the role that businesses play in shaping it. First, there are regional advantages that stem from a talent base whose skills are applicable across many industries or sectors of the economy. Second, different factors play prominent roles in attracting and retaining talent. For managerial and administrative talent, economic opportunities play the primary role for talent attraction; quality of life factors play a more important role for talent retention. Third, talent is often more geographically bound than the companies that employ this talent. Fourth, hidden headquarters comprise a significant amount of headquarters activity. Fifth, there is often a difference in the quality of life factors that play an important role in attracting or retaining talent, compared to a region’s quality of life strengths.

Age Weights for Health Services Derived from the Relative Social Willingness-to-Pay Instrument

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Richardson ◽  
John McKie ◽  
Angelo Iezzi ◽  
Aimee Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Survey Respondent ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Improvement ◽  
Social Valuation

The effect of a patient’s age on the social valuation of health services remains controversial, with empirical results varying in magnitude and implying a different age-value profile. This article employs a new methodology to re-examine these questions. Data were obtained from 2 independent Web-based surveys that administered the Relative Social Willingness to Pay instrument. In the first survey, the age of the patient receiving a life-saving service was varied. Patients were left with either poor mental or physical health. In the second survey, patient age was varied for a service that fully cured the patient’s poor mental or physical health. In total, therefore, 4 sets of age weights were obtained: weights for life-extending services with poor physical or mental health outcomes and weights for quality-of-life improvement for patients in poor mental or physical health. Results were consistent. Increasing age was associated in each case with a monotonic decrease in the social valuation of the services. The decrease in value was quantitatively small until age 60 years. By age 80 years, the social value of services had declined by about 50%. The decline commenced at an earlier age in the context of physical health, although the magnitude of the decrement by age 80 years was unrelated to the type of service. With 1 exception, there was little difference in the valuation of services by the age of the survey respondent. Respondents aged >60 years placed a lower, not higher, value on quality-of-life improvement for elderly individuals than other respondents. There was no difference in the valuation of life-extending services.

scholarly journals Environmental Regulations, the Industrial Structure, and High-Quality Regional Economic Development: Evidence from China

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lingming Chen ◽  
Wenzhong Ye ◽  
Congjia Huo ◽  
Kieran James
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
National Average ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Regulatory Policies

Environmental regulation is an important means of restraining enterprises and protecting the environment. Rationalization of environmental regulatory policies can promote high-quality regional economic development. The optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure has an intermediary effect on the impact of environmental regulations on the high-quality development of the regional economy. After collating and analyzing previous research, this article proposes to classify 30 Chinese provinces into regions with higher than the national average HDI (human development index) and lower than the national average HDI based on the average HDI of Chinese provinces. We explore the mediating effect of industrial structure on environmental regulation and high-quality regional economic development. The model passed the full-sample robustness test and the robustness test with GDP as the replacement variable. The empirical results show that environmental regulations of different intensities have different effects on the quality of regional economic development. The effect of environmental regulations on development quality is mainly mediated through the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure. Enterprises need reasonable incentives from environmental regulations to transform and upgrade. The mediating effect of the industrial structure on environmental regulations is greater in regions with below-average HDI values than in regions with above-average HDI values, which shows that the industrial structure is the mechanism underlying the effect of environmental regulations on the quality of regional economic development. This result proves that adjusting environmental regulatory policies can effectively promote the upgrading of industrial structure, thereby promoting high-quality regional economic development. Based on this, the article puts forward several policy recommendations.

The Comprehensive Evaluation of Regional Economic Development in Inner Mongolia

2011 ◽  
Vol 230-232 ◽  
pp. 44-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Li ◽  
Zhan Xin Ma
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
Indicator System ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Level Indicator ◽  
Western Development ◽  
Level Of Economic Development

The economic growth of Inner Mongolia has ranked first for several years since Western Development. In this paper, we establish a level indicator system for evaluating the level of Regional Economic Development from the following four aspects: economic scale, economic benefit, economic structure and quality of life. Then, we take the data of 2000 as sample data, and apply it to a DEA model based on panel data for evaluating the economic development of the twelve union cities from 2000 to 2009.By the analysis, Inner Mongolia's economic development can be divided into two levels: Erdos , Baotou, Hohhot, Alashan League and Wuhai have a higher level of economic development, Xilinguole League, Hulunbeier, Bayannaoer, Wulanchabu, Chifeng, Tongliao and Xingan League have a poor foundation , the overall development is not ideal.

scholarly journals The impacts of social capital, migration range and regional economic development level on the internal migrants' utilization of public health services

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Yang ◽  
Chenghua Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
Public Health Services ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Development Level ◽  
Internal Migrants ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background It has been a risk of the internal migrants' (IMs') health that their utilization of National Essential Public Health Services (NEPHS) was inadequate. Studies have analyzed the impact of migration range (MR) or regional economic development level (REDL) on the IMs' utilization of NEPHS, but no studies have explored the interaction of MR and REDL on it. Methods Data from the China Migrant Dynamic Survey of 2017, involving 122656 IMs. Per capita GDP was set as the indicator for REDL, and all provinces were divided into three groups according to REDL: affluent, medium and poor. The MR was divided into inter-province and intra-province, and social capital (SC) was distinguished into cognitive (CSC) and structural social capital (SSC). Awareness of NEPHS (ANEPHS) and establishment of health record (EHR) were selected as indexes of NEPHS utilization. Then we used multiple line charts and hierarchical logistic regression to investigate the interaction of MR, REDL and SC on NEPHS utilization. Results (1) The socioeconomic status (SES) and social capital (SC) of the inter-provincial IMs were significantly lower than those of the intra-provincial IMs, and the gap was most prominent in the affluent areas. (2) From low to high, the NEPHS utilization of inter-provincial IMs was ranked as affluent, medium and poor, while the corresponding order of intra-provincial IMs was medium, poor and affluent areas. (3) SC could significantly promote the IMs' utilization of NEPHS, but there was a gap between the inter-provincial and intra-provincial IMs, and the gap was the largest in the affluent areas. Conclution: The IMs' SES, SC and NEPHS utilization were influenced by MR and REDL. The gaps of SES, SC and NEPHS utilization between the inter-provincial and the intra-provincial IMs in affluent areas were much larger than that in medium and poor areas. The government should pay more attention to the inter-provincial IMs in affluent areas.

How scale matters in joint knowledge production for nature-based solutions. Dynamic proximity among stakeholders in climate adaptive water management for brook catchment Aa, the Netherlands

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ermy Brok ◽  
Judith Floor ◽  
Frank van Lamoen ◽  
Angelique Lansu
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Climate Resilience ◽  
Adaptive Water Management ◽  
Joint Knowledge Production

&lt;p&gt;The question &amp;#8216;how scale matters&amp;#8217; from experienced policy makers in adaptive water management motivated us to explore the issue. In search for climate resilience of brook catchments stakeholders collaborate. Those collaborations involve dynamic proximity, giving rise to innovative, creative solutions using natural hydrological and landscape processes. Dynamic proximity is known from innovation research in the field of high-tech regional economic development. The question is whether dynamic proximity among stakeholders influences success of joint knowledge production (JKP) processes as well. We focus on a more nature-tech context of regional economic development: creating nature-based solutions (NbS) to support climate resilience. The conceptual model to study the creative process of JKP combines the four dimensions of JKP with four forms of dynamic proximity. Along this matrix quotes of stakeholders were analysed from seven semi-structured interviews. At least one stakeholder in the process for the brook-restoration of the Aa (the Netherlands) was selected from industry, academia, government and non-profit organizations (following the &amp;#8216;quadruple helix model&amp;#8217;). Findings show that stakeholders who are versatile in using various forms of social, cognitive, institutional and geographical dynamic proximity in the process of JKP experience the process as more successful. Moreover, stakeholders overdoing the institutional or geographical aspects of proximity run into adverse effects, a mechanism recognized in economic geography as the proximity paradox. Furthermore, stakeholders are better supported when they use knowledge instruments, but only when keeping in mind the balance of forms of dynamic proximity. Findings were validated against two stakeholders&amp;#8217; experiences in another process for the Aa of Weerijs (the Netherlands). We suggest refining the model by adding two forms of dynamic proximity relating to interests and to resources, enabling a sharper focus on knowledge production under the heading of cognitive proximity. So, scale matters in such rural, natural processes. The perspective on proximity helps innovation, if proximity among stakeholders does not become too proximate. We have summarised findings in the form of a proximity tool, which is useful for optimizing the science-policy interface in regional adaptive water management.&lt;/p&gt;

scholarly journals The interaction of migration range, regional economic development level on social capital and public health services of internal migrants: evidence from the China Migrant Dynamic Survey in 2017

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Yang ◽  
Chenghua Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
Public Health Services ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Development Level ◽  
Internal Migrants

Abstract Objectives Studies have confirmed that both migration range (MR) and regional economic development level (REDL) have significant impacts on the accessibility of National Essential Public Health Services (NEPHS) for the internal migrants (IMs), but no studies have explored the interaction between MR and REDL, nor discussed the mechanism behind their influence.Method A sample of 115412 respondents from the China Migrant Dynamic Survey in 2017 was adopted, aged 18-59 years and residence duration more than one year. Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai were excluded. The MR was divided into inter-provincial and intra-provincial migration. Social capital (SC) was divided into cognitive social capital (CSC) and structural social capital (SSC). The REDL was divided into high income provinces (HIPs) and low-middle income provinces (LMIPs). Cross-table, chi-square test, logistic regression and other statistical methods were used to analyze impacts of MR and REDL on IMs' SC, awareness of NEPHS and establishment of health records (EHR).Results (1) The SC of inter-provincial IMs is always lower than that of intra-provincial IMs. The CSC of IMs in HIPs is lower but their SSC is not the same. The MR difference of IMs' SC is greater in HIPs. (2) The IMs' level of NEPHS utilization in the inter-provincial group and the HIPs group is lower, and the MR difference of IMs' level of NEPHS utilization is greater in the HIPs. (3) The IMs' SC can significantly promote their NEPHS utilization level, but this relationship is affected by the dimensions of SC, MR and REDL.Conclusions MR and REDL may affect the IMs' SC through cultural exclusion and institutional exclusion, and further affect the IMs' NEPHS utilization. When promoting equalization of NEPHS in HIPs, it is necessary for HIPs to expand more primary health facilities to increase the NEPHS supply, and take measures to stimulate the inter-provincial IMs' sense of identity and social participation.

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