Study of impacts of education, open-access medical publishing, and internet on women’s health in China

Abstract

The researchers’ aim to quantitatively study the impacts of education, health expenditure, Internet, mobile phone, and open-access articles in medical science on women’s health in China. We found that there are very strong significant negative correlations between the data of women’s mortality rates and female school enrollment (p≪0.01), whereas there are strong significant negative correlations for open-access papers in eight disciplines of medical science, individuals using the Internet, and mobile cellular subscriptions (p≪0.01). The first principal component explains 96.8%, 96.6%, and 99.6% of the variation in the mortality rate of female infants (p = 0.002 < 0.01), females under-5 (p = 0.003 < 0.01), and female adults (p = 0.002 < 0.01), respectively. There is a similar relationship between open-access medical papers and women’s health. The above results could be helpful to interdisciplinary audiences (patients, practitioners, and policymakers) to develop strategies for the effective implementation of knowledge on women’s health (how to disseminate knowledge more effectively in the whole society).

Authors’ contributions

The corresponding author analyzed and interpreted the data, and wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Availability of data and materials

The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available on the SCImago (https://www.scimagojr.com) and the World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org).

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Funding

The author acknowledges financial support from the Beijing University Library Research Fund Project (under Grant No. BGT2021017).