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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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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 |
author_facet | Guo, Lin Chai, Yulin Yang, Chunxiao Zhang, Linlin Guo, Hongwei 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). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Guo, Lin Chai, Yulin Yang, Chunxiao Zhang, Linlin Guo, Hongwei Yang, Honglv 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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