Air pollution, general government public-health expenditures and income inequality: Empirical analysis based on the spatial Durbin model

Wu, Jianli; Pu, Ying

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0240053

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“…There are generally three types of model estimation methods for panel data, including mixed regression models, fixed-effects models and random-effects models ( 26 ). As for which model is suitable for the data of sulfur dioxide, per capita GDP and two core explanatory variables, three steps are needed to test.…”

Section: Analysis Resultsmentioning

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The Impact of Environmental Pollution and Economic Growth on Public Health: Evidence From China

Xiao-chun

Jiang

Zhang

2022

Front. Public Health

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A comprehensive understanding of the impact of economic growth and environmental pollution on public health is crucial to the sustainable development of public health. In this paper, an individual fixed effect model is used to analyze the impact of environmental pollution and economic growth on public health, based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2007 to 2018. The research finds that: First, the health status of China's four regions is not only affected by economic growth and environmental pollution, but also affected by the per capita disposable income and urbanization rate. Second, there is a long-term balanced relationship between China's economic growth, environmental pollution and public health. Third, environmental pollution harms children's health and significantly increases the perinatal mortality, while economic growth helps to reduce the perinatal mortality. Fourth, environmental pollution plays a regulatory role between economic growth and public health. Fifth, there are significant regional differences in the impact of environmental pollution and economic growth on public health. Among them, the degree of harm caused by sulfur dioxide emissions on mortality in northeastern China is significantly higher than that of the eastern China, eastern China is higher than that of the western China, and western China is higher than that of the central China. Finally, in order to reduce the adverse consequences of environmental pollution on public health in the process of economic development, this study puts forward relevant policy suggestions.

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Section: Analysis Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Environmental Pollution and Economic Growth on Public Health: Evidence From China

Xiao-chun

Jiang

Zhang

2022

Front. Public Health

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“…The vulnerability of air pollution and income levels were previously reported in other studies. 14 , 39 , 40 …”

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Air pollution attributed disease burden and economic growth in India: Estimating trends and inequality between states

Bagepally

Balachandar

2022

The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia

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“…Thus, environmental pollution reduces the labor force (44,45) and causes economic problems. On the one hand, increasing environmental pollution does increase public health expenditures and causes income inequality (46). On the other hand, the negative impacts of environmental pollution on public health are the main ways pollution decreases general wellbeing (47)(48)(49).…”

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Does environmental regulation improve public health? Evidence from China's Two Control Zones policy

Yang

Liu

Yan

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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Improving public health is the premise of sustainable human development and an essential condition of economic growth. However, increasing severe environmental pollution poses a threat to public health. Implementing environmental regulation policy has become a meaningful way to control environmental pollution and the basis and guarantee for achieving public health. This paper aims to study the impact of environmental regulation on public health. The Two Control Zones (TCZ) policy is the earliest and stricter environmental regulation in China. Based on the policy experiment of TCZ, this paper analyzes the role of TCZ policy in improving public health using the DID model and data from 112 cities. The study finds that the TCZ policy can significantly improve public health, and this improvement effect was continuous and lagging. The results of benchmark regression show that the implementation of the TCZ policy has reduced the incidence rate of respiratory diseases in TCZ areas by 5.7%. When considering city heterogeneity in terms of economic and geographical conditions, the study further found that the impact of improvement is largest for cities in more heavily non-provincial capital and central and western regions, respectively. In addition, the results of mediating test show that TCZ policy improves public health by reducing environmental pollution. Our research fills the gap in the literature on the micro effects of environmental regulation policy on public health in developing countries. The government should prioritize environmental pollution control through reasonable environmental regulation policies. The government should strengthen environmental information disclosure to remind the public to deal with air pollution. The government and enterprises also should take various environmental protection measures to reduce air pollution emissions.

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Air pollution, general government public-health expenditures and income inequality: Empirical analysis based on the spatial Durbin model

Cited by 10 publications

References 81 publications

The Impact of Environmental Pollution and Economic Growth on Public Health: Evidence From China

The Impact of Environmental Pollution and Economic Growth on Public Health: Evidence From China

Air pollution attributed disease burden and economic growth in India: Estimating trends and inequality between states

Does environmental regulation improve public health? Evidence from China's Two Control Zones policy

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