Clean heating and heating poverty: A perspective based on cost-benefit analysis

A systematic review of the cost-effectiveness of community and population interventions to reduce the modifiable risk factors for dementia

“…and China [29]; and single studies on smoking from Thailand [26], physical inactivity from Columbia and Mexico [36], obesity from China [40], and multiple risk factors from South Africa [46]. Economic analytic designs of the included studies can be classified into four types.…”

“…Of these, nine studies [14,15,18,19,21,22,28,40,48] modelled long-term changes in either life-years gained, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) gained, or deaths avoided. The remaining 18 studies [24][25][26][27]29,30,[34][35][36][37]39,[41][42][43][44]47,55,57] modelled future cost savings (often as a result of the modelled benefits) and presented ROIs from either societal or healthcare perspectives.…”

“…Both air pollution studies reported positive ROIs from interventions to subsidise [29] and/or provide [30] cleaner heating/cooking technologies, with benefit-to-cost ratios of 4.5:1 in China [29], 1.4:1 in Kenya, 21.4:1 in Nepal, and 2.5:1 in Sudan [30] arising from reduced disease and fuel costs.…”

Green recovery or pollution rebound? Evidence from air pollution of China in the post-COVID-19 era

“…How to gradually return to normal life under the coexistence with the epidemic is one of the problems to be studied in the future. In addition, air quality improvements bring huge health and economy co-benefits ( Ebenstein et al, 2017 ; Feng et al, 2021 ; He et al, 2016 ). How the air pollution change contributed by epidemic and production resumption affect health and economy co-benefits need to be identifies in future studies.…”

The role and impact of costing method in the decision‐making of energy project: A comparative assessment between levelized cost of energy and benefit‐to‐cost ratio analysis

“…Xiang et al 36 conducted a BCR analysis on cascade energy systems for the improvement of energy utilization by reducing the environmental pollution. Feng et al 37 evaluated the cost‐benefit impact of adopting the clean heating technologies in China during the winter season. According to them, the utilization of clean heating technologies can significantly reduce the air pollution and can bring a health economic benefit of about 109.85 billion yuan.…”