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An Analysis of the Factors Infl uencing Health Based on the Healt h Production Function

Hewei Zhang

Abstract

With the improvement of living standards, people are increasingly concerned about life expectancy at birth as an indicator of
health status. In this article, we selected data from Japan, anchored the analysis of cases, and estimated the health production function, and
then revealed the relationship between various factors and life expectancy at birth.

Keywords

Health status; Health production function; Impulse response analysis; Autoregressive Distribution Lag (ARDL) model; Japan

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18686/mcs.v5i2.1687

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