Health Care Expenditure Inequality Associated With Pollution in China

This research builds an index to describe the inequality in health care expenditure related to pollution, and the measurement with Chinese provincial data set suggests that health care expenditure inequality related to pollution is obvious negative, which confirms that residents located in high-polluted areas cannot get the better health care resources. Meanwhile, the absolute value of health care expenditure inequality related to pollution is even larger than that related to income, which suggests the inequality related to pollution cannot be ignored.

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