How Does Housing Expenditure Affect Residents’ Health Level

The strategy of "healthy China" raises health as a national strategy,and puts forward that the construction of healthy China is an important foundation for building a well-off society in an all-round way and realizing socialist modernization.However,with the continuous development of social economy,the change of production and life style and the aggravation of population aging,the improveme nt of national health level is facing challenges.Housing is an important place for residents’ daily life,which provides the basic living environment for residents and constitutes the basic material condition of health;the residential expenditure and oth er expenditure structure in the consumption structure directly affect the health level of residents.Therefore,based on the data of China Household tracking survey(CFPS)from 2014 to 2018,this paper uses the ordered logit model to focus on the impact of housing expenditure on Residents’ health and its mechanism.The regression results show that,firstly,housing expenditure has a positive impact on self-rated health and depression,that is,housing expenditure has a negative impact on physical health and mental health.With the increase of housing expenditure,the level of physical health and mental health of residents decreases.Second,there are two effects of housing expenditure on Residents’ physical and mental health.On the one hand,the rise of hou sing expenditure leads to the decline of residents’ physical and mental health level;on the other hand,the crowding out of medical expenditure affects residents’ physical and mental health,resulting in the decrease of medical expenditure and the insufficient investment of residents in maintaining health level,which directly leads to the decline of residents’ physical and mental health level and the decrease of health expenditure There is little impact on the health of residents.Thirdly,the influence o f different housing area per capita,housing or not,and residential expenditure in different areas on their physical and mental health is heterogeneous.The marginal effect of residential expenditure on physical and mental health of residents in good hous ing conditions and eastern areas is larger.Fourth,individual characteristics,behavior habits,security status and family characteristics will have an impact on the physical and mental health of residents.Based on the above conclusions,the policy recommendations are as follows:firstly,we should establish a multi-channel supply system of housing rental market to effectively solve the housing problems of migrant workers,such as common property housing or self-occupied commercial housing,and conne ct the link between public rental housing and low rent housing security and housing market,so as to bring asset accumulation to households through housing property rights,Promote economic growth and improve social welfare.Secondly,the strategy of "heal thy China" regards residents’ health as the national strategic focus,and the attention to residents’ health can focus on the housing that provides basic living environment for residents.Therefore,the government should strengthen the rectification of the housing market environment,standardize the leasing market transactions,improve the better living environment for residents,and reduce the health problems caused by the poor housing environment.Third ly,the government should improve the supply system o f housing rental market in different types of cities according to the characteristics of housing market in different regions and the physical and mental health of residents,so as to better promote the health of the whole people.Fourthly,all localities s hould coordinate the investment of medical resources,coordinate medical services,narrow the gap of regional medical level,improve the accessibility of medical services for all,and promote the improvement of the health level of the whole people.