ArticleFrontiers in public health2024
The impact of digital governance on the health of rural residents: the mediating role of governance efficiency and access to information.
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- Digital government and residents' mental health in China: evidence on potential mechanisms and urban-rural heterogeneity.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- The impact of smartphone use on rural residents' environmental quality assessment: evidence from micro-level survey data in China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Telehealth as a catalyst for smart rural development and sustainable tourism: a feasibility case study from Agrafa, Greece.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Digital village construction and the mental health of rural older adults: Evidence from China.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
Background: Digital transformation in rural areas has become a key policy priority worldwide. China is also implementing a digital village strategy and actively promoting the digital transformation of rural governance to improve the well-being of rural residents. The literature suggests that digital governance is linked to health, but the mechanisms behind this relationship remain unclear. Methods: Using data from the 2021 China Land Economic Survey (CLES), this paper examines the impact of digital governance on the health, longevity, and mental health of rural residents. To enhance the robustness of the conclusions, this paper also introduces a dual machine learning model to solve the endogeneity problem of the model. Conclusion and discussion: This study concludes that digital governance has a significant positive impact on the health of rural residents. This finding remains consistent even after addressing endogeneity issues and conducting numerous robustness tests. Mechanistic analyses indicate that digital governance can enhance rural residents' health by improving village governance (environmental governance) and increasing the efficiency of access to personal information. Further analysis reveals that digital governance significantly increases the life expectancy of rural residents but that its effect on mental health is not significant. This study provides new insights into how digital governance affects health, with important implications for health policy development.
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