AUTHOR=Li Zaijun , Hu Meijuan 

TITLE=Spatio-Temporal Disparity and Driving Forces of the Supply Level of Healthcare Service in the Yangtze River Delta

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.863571

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2022.863571

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=The equalization of healthcare supply is not only related to the people's need for a better life, but also can provide a strong guarantee for the high-quality and sustainable development of the Yangtze River Delta integration. By using exploratory spatial analysis techniques, this study analyzed the spatio-temporal evolution characteristics and heterogeneous influence effects of the supply level of healthcare service in the Yangtze River Delta from 2007 to 2019. It was found that the supply level of healthcare service in the Yangtze River Delta had improved significantly, the  differences in the supply level of healthcare service between cities had tended to narrow without polarization, and the supply level of healthcare service generally showed a spatial pattern of high in the south delta and low in the north delta. The higher the supply level of healthcare service was, the weaker the interannual variability was. The supply level of healthcare service in the Yangtze River Delta region presented obvious spatial association and differentiated tendency of local high and low spatial clusters. The relative length and curvature of the supply level of healthcare service in the Yangtze River Delta generally presented a spatial pattern with low values in the northeast and high values in the southwest. Dens and Inru generally exhibited negative spatio-temporal impact on the supply level of healthcare service across most cities, Urba and Disp generally had positive spatio-temporal impact on the supply level of healthcare service across most cities. Pgdp showed an increasingly positive spatio-temporal impact on the supply level of healthcare service across most cities. While Pfin exhibited significantly negative impact on the supply level of healthcare service across most cities in space.