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Health, Economic Growth and Policy Implications

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health, Well-Being and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 3447

Special Issue Editor

Dr. John R . Weinstein

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Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Interests: household air pollution; public health; program assessment; economic analysis; real-world evidence

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Health and economics are inextricably linked; the Preston curve has shown the correlation between GDP and life expectancy across countries and years. This potential causal relationship is bidirectional; increases in health can lead to increases in productivity and economic growth can facilitate investment in a robust public health system. While most associations are positive, there is also a potential for negative associations as well, especially as global development tends to increase levels of pollution, the burden of which is disproportionately borne by those of lower economic and social status.

This Special Issue aims to explore this dual-direction relationship, especially with regards to policy and programs, with a particular focus on long-term impact and sustainability. We especially encourage perspectives of, and submissions from, authors in low- and middle-income countries.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following: pollution; waste management; sustainable development; women’s empowerment; global health; impact evaluation; nutrition; and government spending.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. John R . Weinstein
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • pollution
  • waste management
  • sustainable development
  • women’s empowerment
  • global health
  • impact evaluation
  • nutrition
  • government spending

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The Interplay of Migrant Workers’ Working Hours, Income, and Well-Being in China
by Fei Zhang, Wei Xu and Adnan Khurshid
Sustainability 2023, 15(14), 11409; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151411409 - 23 Jul 2023
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There is a history of overwork in China, and regulations to protect workers are insufficient. This study explores the relationship between working long hours and self-rated health among rural-urban migrant workers in China. Survey data from the 2018 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) [...] Read more.
There is a history of overwork in China, and regulations to protect workers are insufficient. This study explores the relationship between working long hours and self-rated health among rural-urban migrant workers in China. Survey data from the 2018 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) is used to construct a simultaneous equation model, and the 3SLS method is applied. The results showed that: (1) Migrant workers had good health. However, overtime work is very common among migrant workers in China, and male migrants work more overtime. (2) Migrant laborers’ health and income are causally related, with better health leading to higher income. In contrast, the compensatory effect of income by extending working hours on health is smaller than the damage caused by overtime work for the male migrants who have more severe overtime work, resulting in a negative income effect on health. (3) The incentive effect of income on labor supply and the positive interaction effect of increasing labor hours to increase income are only reflected in the standard labor time sample. Therefore, for the heavy overwork group whose working hours have already reached the limit, income increases can no longer motivate them to extend their labor hours. Therefore, provincial and national policy transformations are needed to regularize working hours and remuneration while maintaining individual health. Full article
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Study on the Impact of the Healthy Cities Pilot Policy on Industrial Structure Upgrading: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from China
by Jun-Yi Zheng, Wan-Gang Lv, Jie Shen and Mei Sun
Sustainability 2022, 14(20), 13588; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142013588 - 20 Oct 2022
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The impact and working mechanism of the national Healthy Cities pilot policy on the upgrading of the industrial structure remain foggy. This study takes China’s first batch of Healthy Cities under the pilot policy in 2016 as a natural experiment and builds a [...] Read more.
The impact and working mechanism of the national Healthy Cities pilot policy on the upgrading of the industrial structure remain foggy. This study takes China’s first batch of Healthy Cities under the pilot policy in 2016 as a natural experiment and builds a DID model based on the panel data of 280 prefecture-level cities from 2012 to 2019 to explore the impact of the Healthy Cities pilot policy on the industrial structure, wherein the impact tests and regional heterogeneity analysis are carried out accordingly. It is found through the study that the Healthy Cities pilot policy significantly contributes to industrial structure upgrading, especially for cities in the eastern and central regions. Further research on the impact mechanism shows that the Healthy Cities pilot policy facilitates industrial structure upgrading through technological innovation and green total factor productivity. Supported by the research results, this study argues that it bears great significance on the sustainable development of China’s economy as well as the health and well-being of the people to continually carry out the Healthy Cities pilot work and fully explore the mediating mechanism of the multi-faceted pilot policy on the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure, so as to promote the transformation of the health industry in different regions according to respective local conditions. Full article
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