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Has smart city transition elevated the provision of healthcare services? Evidence from China's Smart City Pilot Policy

This paper endeavors to identify the causal effects between the smart city transition and the provision of healthcare services while uncovering potential pathways of influence. This study first constructs a logical analytical framework and posits five hypotheses for examination. Subsequently, levera...

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Autores principales: Guo, Lin, Chai, Yulin, Yang, Chunxiao, Zhang, Linlin, Guo, Hongwei, Yang, Honglv
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10467231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37654714
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552076231197335
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author Guo, Lin
Chai, Yulin
Yang, Chunxiao
Zhang, Linlin
Guo, Hongwei
Yang, Honglv
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Chai, Yulin
Yang, Chunxiao
Zhang, Linlin
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Yang, Honglv
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description This paper endeavors to identify the causal effects between the smart city transition and the provision of healthcare services while uncovering potential pathways of influence. This study first constructs a logical analytical framework and posits five hypotheses for examination. Subsequently, leveraging the quasi-natural experiment of the China Smart City Pilot Policy (CSCPP), empirical tests are conducted utilizing a Difference-in-Differences (DD) two-way fixed effects model. The findings suggest that the CSCPP has significantly enhanced the provision of healthcare services. Even after addressing the formidable challenges of endogeneity, sample self-selection, and spatial spillovers, the conclusion remains robust. Mechanism tests indicate that the CSCPP primarily operates through two avenues: augmenting human resources and institutional services. Heterogeneity tests reveal that the efficacy of CSCPP is heightened in cities boasting administrative approval service centers, experiencing diminished financial constraints, and exhibiting elevated healthcare provision levels and situated in the eastern region. The theoretical and empirical analysis of this paper demonstrates that smart city transitions can facilitate the enhancement of healthcare services. The potential contribution of this paper is to enrich the conceptualization of governance frameworks for smart city transition while providing empirical evidence from China.
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spelling pubmed-104672312023-08-31 Has smart city transition elevated the provision of healthcare services? Evidence from China's Smart City Pilot Policy Guo, Lin Chai, Yulin Yang, Chunxiao Zhang, Linlin Guo, Hongwei Yang, Honglv Digit Health Original Research This paper endeavors to identify the causal effects between the smart city transition and the provision of healthcare services while uncovering potential pathways of influence. This study first constructs a logical analytical framework and posits five hypotheses for examination. Subsequently, leveraging the quasi-natural experiment of the China Smart City Pilot Policy (CSCPP), empirical tests are conducted utilizing a Difference-in-Differences (DD) two-way fixed effects model. The findings suggest that the CSCPP has significantly enhanced the provision of healthcare services. Even after addressing the formidable challenges of endogeneity, sample self-selection, and spatial spillovers, the conclusion remains robust. Mechanism tests indicate that the CSCPP primarily operates through two avenues: augmenting human resources and institutional services. Heterogeneity tests reveal that the efficacy of CSCPP is heightened in cities boasting administrative approval service centers, experiencing diminished financial constraints, and exhibiting elevated healthcare provision levels and situated in the eastern region. The theoretical and empirical analysis of this paper demonstrates that smart city transitions can facilitate the enhancement of healthcare services. The potential contribution of this paper is to enrich the conceptualization of governance frameworks for smart city transition while providing empirical evidence from China. SAGE Publications 2023-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10467231/ /pubmed/37654714 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552076231197335 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Has smart city transition elevated the provision of healthcare services? Evidence from China's Smart City Pilot Policy
title Has smart city transition elevated the provision of healthcare services? Evidence from China's Smart City Pilot Policy
title_full Has smart city transition elevated the provision of healthcare services? Evidence from China's Smart City Pilot Policy
title_fullStr Has smart city transition elevated the provision of healthcare services? Evidence from China's Smart City Pilot Policy
title_full_unstemmed Has smart city transition elevated the provision of healthcare services? Evidence from China's Smart City Pilot Policy
title_short Has smart city transition elevated the provision of healthcare services? Evidence from China's Smart City Pilot Policy
title_sort has smart city transition elevated the provision of healthcare services? evidence from china's smart city pilot policy
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10467231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37654714
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552076231197335
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