Air pollution, economic growth and health care expenditure

Yazdi, Soheila Khoshnevis; Khanalizadeh, Bahman

doi:10.1080/1331677x.2017.1314823

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“…Increased CO2 emissions will increase the burden of the health budget. These results were in accordance with the research conducted by [4,5] in which both studies tested the influence of revenues and CO2 on government spending on health sectors. In both studies, it found the result that CO2 gas emissions strongly affect government expenditure on the healthcare sector.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…The research conducted by Abdullah [4] on the impact of environmental, economic and demographic factors on government spending on health sector in Malaysia shows the results where CO2, SO2, and NO2 gas emissions proved to be Have a significant influence on the government expenditure on the healthcare sector. The same results discovered by Khoshnevis [5] on their research on the influence of revenues, CO2, and PM10. In their research, they found the results that people's income and CO2 are the variables that most affect the Government's expenditure on the health sector.…”

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confidence: 81%

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The Impact of CO2 Gas Emissions on Government Expenditure of Health Sector in Indonesia

2019

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Improving the degree of public health is increase government expenditure on the health sector. The study aims to analyse environmental degradation, demographic and economic factors on government expenditure in health. The analytical tools used in this study are multiple regression. The results showed that increased government spending on the health sector caused by demographic factors that are increasing the number of elderly people and environmental factors, namely CO2 gas emissions.

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The Impact of CO2 Gas Emissions on Government Expenditure of Health Sector in Indonesia

2019

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“…They determined that CO 2 had a positive effect on healthcare expenditure and further analysis revealed that this impact was more powerful for states whose healthcare expenditures were higher. Khoshnevis Yazdi and Khanalizadeh [11] examined the contribution of environmental quality and economic growth in determining healthcare expenditures for countries located in the Middle East and North Africa for the timespan 1995-2014 by utilising the ARDL model. The findings revealed that increased economic growth elevated healthcare spending, meaning that economic growth is a significant indicator of health spending.…”

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“…The majority of previous researchers have concentrated on how to estimate the size of the income elasticity of healthcare, in addition to the policy implications in terms of the funding and distribution of healthcare resources. Recently conducted studies have also presented a link between health and environmental deterioration in order to examine empirical evidence [11][12][13]. The majority of previous studies have concentrated on the impact of CO 2 emissions on health spending.…”

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A Dynamic Relationship between Environmental Degradation, Healthcare Expenditure and Economic Growth in Wavelet Analysis: Empirical Evidence from Taiwan

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This paper analyzes the co-movement and causal linkages between environmental pollution and healthcare expenditure, taking economic growth as a control variable by using wavelet analysis for Taiwan over the period 1995 Q1–2016 Q4. The results show that there exists co-movement and causality between environmental pollution and healthcare expenditure at different frequencies and times. The changes in the relationships of the two variables are observed in certain events such as the period of the expansion stage, the policy of environmental pollution, and the issue of the National Health Insurance Integrated Circuit card (NHI-IC) in Taiwan. In the short-term, positive causality runs from healthcare expenditure to environmental pollution before 2004, while negative causality runs from healthcare expenditure to environmental pollution before 2007 in the long-term. After adding economic growth as a control variable, positive causality runs from healthcare expenditure to environmental pollution in the period 2009–2011 in the short-term, while negative causality running from healthcare expenditure to environmental pollution is shown in 2008 in the long-term. The results indicate that “higher government health expenditure leading to higher demand for environment quality” exists in different sub-periods and the argument may concern the factor of economics in the long-term. The positive healthcare lead in the short-term may be based on economics in the expansion stage. Also, the issue of NHI-IC possibly affects the dynamic relationship between healthcare expenditure and environmental pollution without considering economics. Based on empirical analysis, certain policy and managerial implications are addressed for decision-makers at macroeconomic and microeconomic levels.

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“…Using a model examining the relationship between health expenditure, income, CO 2 emissions and PM 10 (particulate matter) emissions, for a panel of MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries during 1995-2014, Khoshnevis Yazdi and Khanalizadeh [49] found an "overwhelming evidence between health expenditures and its determinants" [49] (p. 1189). Thus, economic growth in these countries will increase the consumption of fossil fuels, environmental degradation, and will lead to higher risk of pollution-induced health diseases and mortality.…”

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The Relative Effects of Economic Growth, Environmental Pollution and Non-Communicable Diseases on Health Expenditures in European Union Countries

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Bădulescu

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National and global health policies are increasingly recognizing the key role of the environment in human health development, which is related to its economic and social determinants, such as income level, technical progress, education, quality of jobs, inequality, education or lifestyle. Research has shown that the increase of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) per capita can provide additional funds for health but also for environmental protection. However, often, economic growth is associated with the accelerated degradation of the environment, and this in turn will result in an exponential increase in harmful emissions and will implicitly determine the increasing occurrence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), mainly cardiovascular diseases, cancers and respiratory diseases. In this paper, we investigate the role and effects of economic growth, environmental pollution and non-communicable diseases on health expenditures, for the case of EU (European Union) countries during 2000–2014. In order to investigate the long-term and the short-term relationship between them, we have employed the Panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method. Using the Pedroni-Johansen cointegration methods, we found that the variables are cointegrated. The findings of this study show that economic growth is one of the most important factors influencing the health expenditures both in the long- and short-run in all the 28 EU countries. With regards to the influence of CO2 emissions on health expenditure, we have found a negative impact in the short-run and a positive impact on the long-run. We have also introduced an interaction between NCDs and environmental expenditure as independent variable, a product variable. Finally, we have found that in all the three estimated models, the variation in environmental expenditure produces changes in NCDs’ effect on health expenditure.

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Air pollution, economic growth and health care expenditure

Cited by 135 publications

References 17 publications

The Impact of CO2 Gas Emissions on Government Expenditure of Health Sector in Indonesia

The Impact of CO2 Gas Emissions on Government Expenditure of Health Sector in Indonesia

A Dynamic Relationship between Environmental Degradation, Healthcare Expenditure and Economic Growth in Wavelet Analysis: Empirical Evidence from Taiwan

The Relative Effects of Economic Growth, Environmental Pollution and Non-Communicable Diseases on Health Expenditures in European Union Countries

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