非洲早期儿童健康:ICT和民主是否重要?
Gaston Brice Nkoumou Ngoa1,2, Jacques Simon Song2
1Department of Economics, University of Fribourg, Boulevard de Perolles 90, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.
Health economics, policy, and law
|November 5, 2023
概括
信息和通信技术 (ICT) 改善了非洲的儿童健康,无论民主水平如何. 互联网接入促进了儿童健康,特别是改善了民主环境,降低了婴儿死亡率.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 发展经济学 发展经济学
- 政治科学 政治科学是指政治学.
背景情况:
- 非洲的儿童健康仍然是一个关键问题.
- 技术进步和治理在健康结果中的作用需要进一步研究.
研究的目的:
- 分析信息和通信技术 (ICT) 和民主对51个非洲国家的幼儿健康的影响.
- 确定手机普及和互联网普及对儿童健康指标的具体影响.
主要方法:
- 使用普通最小平方和两阶段最小平方 (2001-2019) 的面板数据模型估计.
- 霍德里克-普雷斯科特波器用于时间序列分析的应用.
主要成果:
- 越来越多的手机使用在非洲显著改善了早期儿童的健康状况.
- 互联网的普及对儿童健康产生了积极的影响,尤其是在民主环境增强的环境中.
- 手机使用对儿童健康的积极影响是独立于民主的水平.
结论:
- 建议推行促进广泛获得ICT和互联网基础设施的政策,以减少婴儿死亡率.
- 加强非洲的民主制度可以进一步增强互联网接入对儿童健康的积极影响.
- 专注于技术获取和民主治理的综合战略对于提高儿童存活率至关重要.
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