Environmental regulation policies and public health: Based on the mediating effect test of environmental pollution

Abstract

For exploring the impact of environmental regulation policies on environmental pollution and public health, the measurement model for the effect of environmental regulation policies is constructed by utilizing the quantitative analysis of China's environmental regulation policies from the two dimensions of policy attribute intensity and policy content intensity, based on the 976 environmental regulation policies in China from 1978 to 2013. This paper introduces the method of intermediary effect test to analyze the environmental health economics, to examine the mediating effect of environmental pollution on environmental regulation policies and public health. The results show that environmental regulation policies can promote public health; China's general environmental regulation policies had a positive effect to a certain extent on the prevention and control of environmental pollution; Preventing pollution policies contribute to public health through significantly partial mediating effect of environmental pollution. This study examines the three-dimensional dynamic relationship of policy-environment-health based on the quantitative perspective of the general environmental regulation policies literature, trying to clarify the impact of environmental regulation policies, environmental pollution and public health factors transmission path, which show the theoretical value for the evaluation of environmental regulation policy effect, the protection of environmental quality and the sustainable improvement of public health. © 2018, Editorial Board of Journal of Systems Engineering Society of China. All right reserved.