Is Human Comprehensive Development Coordinated with the Development of National Public Health and Medical Security?

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10.2991/978-2-38476-271-2_18How to use a DOI?

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human comprehensive development; human development index; public health level; current health expenditure; coordinated development degree; national public health and medical security

Abstract

Human development index (HDI) is a comprehensive indicator to measure the human development level in each region, which consists of three indicators as life expectancy, education standard and life satisfactory representing health, education and economic level respectively. However, relevant data shows that the emergency capability and control effect in response to infectious epidemic diseases as the COVID-19 recently is not completely consistent with the HDI level in some countries. This may due to the constraint that the selected representative factors of index HDI may not fully reflect the development in their aspects, especially, the national public health standard. Therefore, in this article, we are interested to explore the relationship between human development level and the national public health development level. Choose the current health expenditure (percentage of GDP) (CHE) as the representative factor concerning the public and medical security of national people’s livelihood. For the sake of more accurate evaluation about the difference between levels of two indicators, coordinated development degree (CDD) is utilized to reflect the development relationship between two aspects qualitatively. Further analysis based on the latest updated data by regions around the world indicates that the overall global trend has been stable over the years, while different relationships including coordinated developed type and maladjusted recession type with varying extents exist between human comprehensive development and national public health development among countries rather than a single highly positive or negative dependency. Combined with the specific actual situations in different regions, objective factors like external environmental challenges and development pressure of each country, as well as the internal development conditions including national capabilities and related government policies, may explain for the various observed correlations between the human comprehensive development and the development of national public health and medical security. Interesting phenomena of the development coordination are also demonstrated through the analysis of case fatality rate of COVID-19.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Po Yang
AU  - Katherine Y. Zhang
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/07/29
TI  - Is Human Comprehensive Development Coordinated with the Development of National Public Health and Medical Security?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 5th International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 132
EP  - 142
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-271-2_18
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-271-2_18
ID  - Yang2024
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