The Causal Nexus among Energy Consumption, Environmental Degradation, Financial Development and Health Outcome: Empirical Study for Pakistan

Arafat, Weal M.Gh. M.; Haq, Ihtisham ul; Mehmed, Bahtiyar; Abbas, Azeem; Gamage, Sisira Kumara Naradda; Gasimli, Oruj

doi:10.3390/en15051859

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“…The findings show that CO 2 emissions affect inversely health outcomes. More recently, the study of Arafat et al ( 30 ) analyzed the causality relationship between CO 2 emissions, life expectancy, and IMR in the case of Pakistan by applying causality cointegration and causality methods. The causality analysis findings showed the occurrence of a unidirectional link moving from CO 2 emissions to life expectancy and IMR.…”

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Impacts of health expenditures and environmental degradation on health status—Disability-adjusted life years and infant mortality

Omri

Kahouli

Kahia

2023

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionHuman health and well-being are intimately related to environmental quality. In this respect, the present study contributes to the existing health economic literature by examining whether public and private health expenditures (PPHE) moderate the incidences of environmental degradation on the health status in Saudi Arabia, particularly disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and infant mortality.MethodsUsing the fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) method.Results and DiscussionThe empirical results revealed that (i) unconditional positive impacts of CO2 emissions on increasing DALYs and infant mortality; (ii) conditional negative impacts of public health expenditures on DALYs and infant mortality in all the estimated models, whereas global and private expenditure contribute only on reducing infant mortality; (iii) public health expenditure is more effective than private health expenditure in reducing infant mortality; (iv) the effects of the interactions between the indicators of both health expenditures and CO2 emissions on DALYs and infant mortality are negative and significant only for the specifications relating to public health expenditures, indicating that this later could be employed as a policy or conditional variable that moderates the adverse impacts of carbon emissions on the population’s health status. Generally, the study presents an overview of environmental health change’s effects and examine how these effects may be reduced through increasing health spending. The study provides recommendations for addressing health status, health expenditures, and carbon emissions, all of which are directly or indirectly linked to the study.

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Impacts of health expenditures and environmental degradation on health status—Disability-adjusted life years and infant mortality

Omri

Kahouli

Kahia

2023

Front. Public Health

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“…The study recorded a causal relationship between environmental quality, education, and health. Arafat et al (2022) examined the causal nexus between energy consumption, environmental degradation, nancial development, and health outcomes for Pakistan. They recorded a unidirectional causality from energy consumption and environmental degradation to health outcomes, while bidirectional causality was discovered between nancial development and health outcomes in the long run.…”

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Energy Consumption, Environmental Quality and Health Nexus in West African Countries: Implications for Sustainable Development

Aderinto

2023

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Energy remains indispensable in production and consumption activities and is therefore the driving force of economic growth and improved living standard. Despite the fact that Africa is rich in renewable energy, the continent’s energy mix is largely dominated by the fossil fuels. This could have deteriorating effects on the environment and subsequently on the health of people across the continent. The sustainable development goals are geared towards ensuring a sustainable future for all, with good health, well-being and sustainable environment as part of the principal targets. However, most developing countries including West African countries have been experiencing declining health patterns following the lack of attention on health-related factors like energy and environment. This study therefore intends to examine the nexus among energy consumption, environmental quality and health in West African countries while employing data from 2000 to 2019. The study disintegrates energy consumption into renewable and non-renewable energy. Pooled Mean Group Autoregressive Distributed Lag (PMG/ARDL) model was employed for the study. Short run estimates reveal a negative influence of non-renewable energy on life expectancy in West African countries. Similarly, non-renewable energy exerts a significant and negative influence on child mortality. Non-renewable energy also reduces health expenditure. Renewable energy was observed to increase life expectancy and reduce child mortality. The study concludes that a substantial amount of renewable energy be incorporated into the energy basket of West African countries to improve health conditions.

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“…Table 1 provides a summary of these studies. The literature in Table 1 might be classified as follows: i) There is a consensus in the literature that environmental degradation rises infant mortality (Ecevit & Çetin, 2016;Majeed & Khan, 2019;Erdoğan et al, 2019;Shobande, 2020;Majeed & Ozturk, 2020;Omri et al, 2022;Yu et al, 2022;Tsai et al, 2022;Barua et al, 2022) and reduces life expectancy (Balan, 2016;Sirag et al, 2017;Matthew et al, 2018;Nkalu & Edeme, 2019;Erdoğan et al, 2019;Majeed & Khan, 2019;Majeed & Ozturk, 2020;Akter et al, 2020;Hossain et al, 2020;Rodriguez-Alvarez, 2021;Murthy et al, 2021;Alimi & Ajide, 2021;Chen et al, 2021;Bouchoucha, 2021;Rjoub et al, 2021;Azam et al, 2022;Omri et al, 2022;Rahman & Alam, 2022a;Arafat et al, 2022;Radmehr & Adebayo, 2022;Salehnia et al, 2022;Ibrahim, 2022;Bayar et al, 2022). Also, Mutizwa and Makochekanwa (2015) concluded that environmental degradation does not have an impact on infant mortality.…”

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How Do Environmental Protection Expenditures Affect Health Status? Evidence From Panel Quantile Regression

Barak

Tunc

2022

Kafkas Üniversitesi İktisadi Ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi

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The relationship between environment and health status has attracted intensive attention in recent years. However, limited studies have focused on environmental protection expenditure on health status. This study empirically tests the links of environmental protection expenditure with health status for 20 European countries over the period 1995-2019. For empirical analysis, this study used panel quantile regression. The empirical results show that while environmental protection expenditure, GDP, and education help to ameliorate health status, CO2 emissions worse health status. Hence, efficient environmental protection expenditure and environmental policies must align with strategies to improve health status.

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The Causal Nexus among Energy Consumption, Environmental Degradation, Financial Development and Health Outcome: Empirical Study for Pakistan

Cited by 8 publications

References 47 publications

Impacts of health expenditures and environmental degradation on health status—Disability-adjusted life years and infant mortality

Impacts of health expenditures and environmental degradation on health status—Disability-adjusted life years and infant mortality

Energy Consumption, Environmental Quality and Health Nexus in West African Countries: Implications for Sustainable Development

How Do Environmental Protection Expenditures Affect Health Status? Evidence From Panel Quantile Regression

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