健康APP持续使用意愿研究——电子健康素养和确认度的影响

智能手机的普及促使健康APP得到普遍应用,但存在健康APP下载之后用户对其使用率低的普遍现象,为此分析健康APP持续使用意愿的影响因素十分有必要。在健康APP、信息系统持续使用等相关文献的研究基础之上,结合健康APP用户使用行为特征,在ECM-IS中引入电子健康素养,构建健康APP的持续使用意愿模型,主要分析电子健康素养和确认度对持续使用意愿的影响机制。另外给出模型中变量的定义和相关假设,为后续实证研究奠定理论基础。     

Risk‐Coping Measures against Health Shocks during the Process of Penetration of Health Insurance in Vietnam

Does the recent introduction of public health insurance influence households' risk‐coping measures in developing countries? This study investigates risk‐coping measures for health shocks using a Living Standard Measurement Survey in Vietnam where universal health coverage is aimed to be achieved. The estimated results suggest that precautionary savings are the main form of assets in poor households. Health insurance seems to be used by people in poor health, which indicates that the problem of adverse selection exits. Importantly, get well gifts in the form of money play a significant role in helping households cope with health shocks. A traditional informal insurance system still exists in close Vietnamese communities.     

Chasing Success: Health Sector Aid and Mortality

As many cases studies show, successful public health measures are being implemented in many places around the globe, and country-level mortality has fallen significantly in recent decades in all but a few countries. Are the two linked? Does development assistance for health (DAH) improve, on balance, recipient countries’ mortality trajectory? Using a new data source containing DAH on 96 high mortality countries, the regression analysis shows no effect of DAH on mortality. Other types of aid, including water development, also have no effect. Economic growth, on the other hand, has a strong negative effect on mortality. These findings confirm and build upon recent work by Williamson (2008) and are shown to be robust to a variety of sensitivity analyses and alternative model specifications and estimation methods.This analysis also shows that the effectiveness of DAH has not increased over time, even as the level of that funding has increased fourfold, though spending on infectious diseases and family planning may have caused small reductions in mortality. Furthermore, even though it is encouraging that DAH has tended to go where the need is highest, it also goes to states that have experienced the greatest mortality reductions in the recent past. In other words, DAH appears to be following success, rather than causing it.     

影响少儿读者心理健康的因素及对策

消极复杂的社会环境给少儿读者心理健康带来不良影响，应该充分重视这一社会问题，采取有效措施提高少儿读者的心理素质，加强道德建设，保证未成年人健康成长。     

Combating deceptive advertisements and labelling on food products – an exploratory study on the perceptions of teachers

People are becoming more health conscious nowadays, but most of them are not able to adopt a lifestyle with adequate physical exercise and a healthier eating pattern. Many attempt to compensate by taking ‘health foods’. Despite the recent economic recession, the functional food market is expanding rapidly in Asian countries. Recent statistics indicate a huge increase in weight loss and functional food product advertising expenditure in Hong Kong and other Asian countries. In a large scale survey conducted by the Hong Kong Consumer Council on advertisements, it was found that 85% of the medicines, health food and therapies sampled contain questionable claims and misleading messages, which was the second most problematic category of the survey. In addition, young people do not understand much about modern food processing, in particular with regard to low energy and functional foods, and they know very little about modern food marketing strategies. The situation is potentially detrimental to consumer welfare, especially to the younger generation. This study was conducted to reflect critically on implications of the issue on the health and well‐being of young people in Hong Kong. Attempts are made to explore directions for designing relevant and effective education programmes to empower young people's abilities in understanding food advertising strategies and making informed decisions on food choice. This paper begins with a critical review of the current situation with regard to Hong Kong. Then, the results of an interview survey and a questionnaire survey on pre‐service and in‐service teachers’ perception towards misleading food advertising and labelling are reported. The situations at schools are defined and problems faced by teachers in providing relevant consumer education programmes to students are identified. Finally, some prospective foci for further investigation of this important issue, with a view to developing students’ critical skills in evaluating claims offered in food advertisements, will be considered.     

健康与教育：人力资本投资的比较研究

对于人力资本投资的两种主要形式———健康与教育 ,大量的研究集中于后者。随着经济的发展 ,健康人力资本在经济增长中的作用已越来越受到重视。从两种人力资本投资的异同与联系的比较分析中 ,介绍了健康投资的特征与测量等问题     

Equity and the environment: An application of the Berliant–Strauss vertical and horizontal equity framework to measuring the distributional effects of air quality regulation

The distributional effects of a major air regulation in the United State in 2015 were analyzed using Berliant and Strauss Index Numbers, a set of theoretical and empirical equity metrics, and reduced‐form models that estimate the mortality effects of air pollutant emissions and their source contributions. By viewing the effects of pollution on human mortality as an implicit tax, we found progressivity in 54% to 56% of vertical comparisons and inequity in 92% to 94% of horizontal comparisons. The introduction of the proposed policy made 58% of vertical comparisons more progressive and was equitable to 70% of horizontal comparisons.     

"做家务"还是"继续工作"? ——健康视角下的老年人劳动时间配置

随着健康劳动时间价值的持续上升,合理解决工作时间和家务时间配置的冲突,对于老年人的时间福利提升具有重要实践意义。基于中国健康与营养调查 (CHNS)1997 ～ 2015 非平衡面板数据,使用面板 Tobit 模型实证分析了健康对老年人劳动时间配置的影响。研究发现：（1）慢性疾病和健康冲击显著减少了老年人的工作时间,但增加了家务时间,该结论在收入增加时仍然成立。（2）以日常饮食偏好作为工具变量,采用面板数据工具变量法,发现该结果仍然成立;采用日常生活能力作为自变量进一步的验证健康对老年人劳动时间配置的影响,结果仍稳健。（3）分城乡异质性结果表明,城镇老年人在受到健康威胁时,更重视家庭时间价值,而农村老年人即使受到了健康威胁,仍存在“无休止劳动”现象;分职业异质性结果表明,服务业和非专业技术老年人受到健康威胁时,其工作时间和家务时间都增加,劳动时间福利受损。高级专业技术老年人的工作时间减少,家务时间增加。从事农业劳动的农民和有技术老年人的工作时间增加,家务时间减少。随着收入的增加,没有发现服务业、农业和有技术老年人的工作时间和家务劳动时间之间的相互替代关系,高级专业技术工人更倾向于用家务劳动时间替代工作时间。另外,未发现在城镇从事服务业、农业、非专业技术、技术和高级技术工人五大类职业中工作时间和家务时间之 间的替代关系。从社会保障和社会福利政策、老年劳动力需求相关的政策和畅通职业自由流动政策方面提出政策建议。     

微信运动健康因子对健康保险费率影响研究

近年来,微信运动促进群众的运动风潮不断上涨。然而查询已有文献,较少提及微信运动使用与健康保险费率的关系。借由因素萃取、逻吉斯回归、均值检定等方式研究发现,微信健康计步功能使用时间越长的消费者,其住院概率较低（P<0.1）,健康保险费率也显著低于不使用微信健康计步功能的消费者（P<0.01）。因此,建议在合法的情况下,进行认识客户工作,采集的数据可作为健康保险订定差异费率的参考。