Spatial Spillover Effect of Government Public Health Spending on Regional Economic Growth during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Evidence from China

Table 1

Variable descriptions.

Variable	Reaction factor	Symbol	Description	Unit
Explained variable	Level of economic development	pgdp	GDP per capita	Thousand yuan
Explanatory variable	Public health expenditure	pph	Government spending on public health	Billion yuan
	Fixed investment	fi	Fixed asset investment	10 billion yuan
Control variable	Human capital	hc	Average of health technical staff	—
	Medical scale	mc	Average of medical beds	—
	Urbanization	ur	Urbanization rate	%
	Population size	rp	Birth rate	‰