The lecture of Early life environment and long-term health inequality was held successfully
—— 发布时间：2018-07-11 ——
On July 11, 2018, Professor Chen Xi, Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics at Yale University, Institute of Social Policy at Yale University, Climate Change and Health Program, Macmillan Center, Yale China Institute, etc. The lecture entitled “Early Life Environment and Long-Term Health Inequality” was held successfully in Beijing Normal University at 9504 Jingshi Building. Professor Li Shi, Director of CCEHD, Executive Dean of China Income Distribution Institute, and School of Economics and Business Administration of Beijing Normal University host the lecture.
At the beginning of the lecture, Professor Li Shi, the director of the center, presented the letter of appointment to Mr. Chen, “the researcher of China Center for Economics of Human Devolopment”
Mr. Chen Xi then shared the research. Mr. Chen Xi first introduced the differences in early health investment between Europe and the American countries and China. Using the indicators of infant mortality and life expectancy, it was found that the effects of early human health investment in Europe over the past 20 years were higher than those in the United States. It is further pointed out that the government's large-scale investment in medical health and other aspects of its long-term health and healthy intergenerational transmission of returns is less than the government's return on investment in other health-related social projects. At present, China is in the important node of health policy reform, and how to choose in the future requires careful consideration. Then, Chen Xi introduced intergenerational transmission research on health inequality. Through the analysis of American data, it is found that the current health inequality is more obvious in the intergenerational transmission of the baby, and the mother's pre-pregnancy obesity and smoking increase this influences. Although the income gap has been expanding over the past two decades, this phenomenon has not been reflected in the changes in the low birth weight of children in different income families. Whether the improvement in absolute income and the change in relative income have a different effect on the proportion of low birth weight children. Further research is needed.
According to the existing factors, Chen Xi divides it into two categories, one is family uncontrollable factors such as family environment, poverty status, and genes; the other is behavioral factors such as smoking and drinking. Through the MLD decomposition of the mortality rate of the elderly, the living environment before the age of 5 can explain about 25%-30% of the health inequalities of the elderly over 60 years old, and the impact of non-health factors is significantly greater than the health factors. Further analysis of the gene PGS found that genetic factors accounted for about 11% of aging in the elderly, with obese genes explaining 3.5% of aging and 6.2% of cognitive genes. Finally, Mr. Chen gave a detailed introduction to the environment, acquired behavior, social culture and health related research, and put forward many interesting findings. In response to everyone's doubts, Mr. Chen answered them one by one. Through the sharing of Teacher Chen Xi, we have deepened our understanding of the relationship between the early life environment and long-term health inequality, and benefited a lot.
