Abstract: Abstract: Based on 30 provincial-level regions panel data from 1998 to 2013 of China, and in the perspective of Cobb-Douglas production function, this paper has carried on the empirical analysis on the relationship of health care spending and economic growth by an established two-way fixed effect model. The results showed: first, both the government health care spending and the residents’ health care spending do a significantly contribute on economic growth. Among them, when the government health care spending grew 100%, it will promote 12.08% growth of economics. And the expenditure on the residents’ health care can promote about 15.85% growth of economics as it grew 100%. Second, after considering the unbalanced development of economic from different regions, we found that the difference in effect on economic growth is very large. Which the government health care spending brings a “wavy” effect on the growth of economic, and the residents’ health expenditure on economic growth showed a “ladder” effect. This study can provide some reference for the local government to promote economic growth and improve people’s livelihood through control health care expenditure reasonably and adjust the size of health policy.

摘要： 摘 要：基于中国30个省级地区从1998年到2013年的面板数据，本文以柯布-道格拉斯生产函数为研究视角，建立双向固定效应模型对我国医疗卫生支出和经济增长之间的关系进行实证分析。研究结果显示：一，政府医疗卫生支出和居民医疗卫生支出都显著促进了经济增长。其中，政府医疗卫生支出每增长100%，带动经济增长12.08%，居民医疗卫生支出每增长100%，带动经济增长15.85%；二，考虑到不同地区的经济发展非均衡化时，政府医疗卫生支出和居民医疗卫生支出带动经济增长的效应差异甚大，其中政府医疗卫生支出对经济增长呈现“波浪型”效应，而居民医疗卫生支出对经济增长呈现“阶梯型”效应。本文的研究对于地方政府合理控制医疗卫生支出规模和调整医疗卫生政策进而促进经济的增长和民生的改善具有借鉴意义。