Will the economic growth benefit public health? Health vulnerability, urbanization and COVID-19 in the USA.

ABSTRACT: Economic growth has a significant impact on health vulnerability primarily through the process of urbanization. This paper conducts a pioneer study by analyzing the impact of regional economic growth and urbanization on the public health vulnerability in the 51 states and territories of the USA from 2011 to 2018 with a fixed-effect panel data regression model. We construct an epidemiological vulnerability index (EVI) using regional smoking, diabetes, obesity, and hypertension, collect CDC social vulnerability index (SVI) as state-level public health vulnerability status, and use COVID-19 to test the actual effect of health vulnerability. The preliminary results show that higher regional economic growth is related to lower EVI and SVI, while urbanization is positively associated with region

SUBMITTER: Fan Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8782711 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature