Economic development is the material basis for ensuring health, and its influence on people's health level is comprehensive in many ways. First of all, economic development is the premise of improving residents' material living standards. Economic development can provide people with adequate food and nutrition, good living and working conditions, which is conducive to the improvement of residents' health. Secondly, economic development is conducive to increasing health technology resources, promoting the development of medical and health undertakings, and can affect the health status of residents. Research data from various countries show that the proportion of health expenditure to GDP and per capita health expenditure are related to residents' health. Thirdly, economic development indirectly affects people's health through the influence of education, and the improvement of education level will affect people's ability to accept health care knowledge, thus affecting people's health.
With the development of social economy, the improvement of population health level is a positive general trend. However, economic development will not only solve the past health problems, but also bring some new health problems and have a negative impact. Mainly in the following aspects:
(1) Environmental pollution and destruction of modern industry have caused serious pollution and destruction of human life and production environment, resulting in a wide range of health problems and potential hazards.
(2) Changes in Lifestyle With the development of social economy, people's main health problems no longer come from malnutrition, poor working conditions and backward sanitary facilities, but mainly from bad lifestyles, such as smoking, alcoholism, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, bad eating and sleeping habits, and lack of exercise.
(3) A large number of synthetic chemicals enter human life. In order to improve living conditions, some new chemicals are constantly being used. People are constantly exposed to a large number of chemicals in eating, wearing, living and using. These chemicals may have a great impact on human health.
(4) Mental health problems With the improvement of productivity and the arrival of the era of knowledge economy, social competition is more intense, the pace of work and life is accelerated, and tension, stimulation and work pressure have adverse effects on physical and mental health.
(5) With the increase of social floating population, economic development is bound to be accompanied by the increase of floating population, and a large number of rural people flow into cities, which increases the burden of living facilities in cities and brings many health problems.