An empirical analysis of the impact of income inequality and social capital on physical and mental health - take China's micro-database analysis as an example.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Income inequality is one of the important reflections of the unbalanced development of the world economy and can have adverse effects on physical and mental health.

Methods

This article used the 2018 China Family Panel Studies Database as an empirical analysis data source. The Kakwani index (KI) was used to measure income inequality, and social capital was broken into cognitive social capital and structural social capital. Our assessment was conducted by using STATA16 software for ordered logistic regression, verifying income inequality, social capital on correlation between physical and mental health firstly; then by gradual regression methods to verify intermediary effect, and demonstrate the social capital as an intermediary variable affecting physical and ment

SUBMITTER: He Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8571851 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature