TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Transportation infrastructure, population mobility, and public health
JO  - International journal of environmental research and public health
A1  - Zhang, Fen
A1  - Song, Tianyi
A1  - Cheng, Xiang
A1  - Li, Tianhao
A1  - Yang, Ziming
SP  - e751
EP  - e751
VL  - 20
IS  - 1
N2  - This paper constructs an overlapping generations model, including health human capital, to investigate the impact of transportation investment on public health with population mobility. The theoretical analysis shows that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between transportation infrastructure and population flow, which also exists between transportation and health. Health is affected by transportation from three aspects: positive output effect, negative substitution effect on public health investment, and an indirect effect through population flow. In the empirical part, considered with the infectious diseases, we found that the more intensive the traffic facilities, the greater the population flow, and therefore, the traffic facilities will have a negative impact on health. When population mortality is used to measure the level of public health, transportation improvement will significantly enhance public health with an inverted U-shaped relationship, which is consistent with the theoretical portion.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1661-7827
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010751
ID  - ref1
ER  -