The Effect of Environmental Degradation on the Financing of Healthcare

Moosa, Nisreen; Pham, Huy

doi:10.1080/1540496x.2018.1439375

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“…Findings in previous literature show that the positive role of CO 2 emissions in health expenditures is more than the negative effect of renewable energy (Badulescu et al 2019 ). The health expenditures and CO 2 emissions might be associated negatively or positively; it depends on GDP (Moosa and Pham 2019 ).…”

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The roles of economic growth and health expenditure on CO2 emissions in selected Asian countries: a quantile regression model approach

Bilgili

Kuşkaya

Khan

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Continuous economic growth and the rise in energy consumption are linked with environmental pollution. Demand for health care expenditure increased after the COVID-19 pandemic. This study is interesting in modeling the nexus between public and private health expenditure, carbon dioxide emissions, and economic growth. To this end, the present study analyzed the nexus between public and private health care expenditure, economic growth, and environmental pollution for 36 Asian countries for the period 1991–2017. FMOLS, GMM, and quantile regression analysis confirm the EKC hypothesis in Asia. Besides, FMOLS and quantile regressions reached the reducing effects of government and private health expenditures on CO 2 emissions. While quantile regression results show that public and private health expenditures can mitigate CO 2 emissions; however, these results differ for various levels of CO 2 . Findings of quantile regression show a significant impact of both public and private health expenditures in reducing CO 2 at the 50 th and 75 th quantiles but results are insignificant for the 25 th quantile. Overall, the paper concludes that both government and private health sectors’ expenditures caused CO 2 emissions to decrease in Asia and that the negative impact of the private health sector on CO 2 emissions is greater than that of the government health sector. The concluding remark is that the higher the health spending, the higher the environmental quality will be in Asia. Hence, the health administrators need to increase public and private health expenditures with an effective cost-service and energy-efficient management approach to reach sustainable health services and a sustainable environment in Asia. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11356-021-13639-6.

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The roles of economic growth and health expenditure on CO2 emissions in selected Asian countries: a quantile regression model approach

Bilgili

Kuşkaya

Khan

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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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

Hsueh

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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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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“…Also, according to the coefficient results obtained, an increase in CO2 in China affects lhe positively. Considering the studies in the literature, it is concluded that there are significant causal relationships or co-integration relations from carbon dioxide emission to health expenditures in the countries subject to analysis (Yahaya et al, 2016;Chaabouni and Saidi, 2017;Yazdi and Khanalizadeh, 2017;Apergis et al, 2018;Alimi, Ajide and Isola, 2019;Moosa and Pham, 2019;Wang et al, 2019). In this study, it is seen that there is a positive causality relationship from carbon dioxide emission to health expenditures only in China, not for all BRICS-T countries for the period 2000-2016.…”

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“…Based on the empirical results, it was found that there was a oneway causality relationship from carbon dioxide emission to health expenditures. Moosa and Pham (2019) analyzed the relationship between per capita health expenditures, per capita income and per capita carbon dioxide emission, using data of the world average and seven country groups over the period of 1995-2015. Relationships between variables were investigated using the ARDL model.…”

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The Relationship between CO2 and Health Expenditures in BRICS-T Countries

Erdoğan¹,

Kırca²,

Gedikli³

2020

berj

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One of the most important indicators of deterioration in environmental quality is the increase in carbon dioxide emissions. Increasing carbon dioxide emissions negatively affect the health of individuals and lead to the emergence of a number of chronic diseases. The most significant cost of chronic diseases which reduces employee productivity is the impact on health expenditures. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and health expenditures for BRICS-T countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and Turkey) over the period 2000-2016. The panel causality test developed by Kónya (2006) was used as the method. Based on the empirical results, it was found that there is a unidirectional positive causal relationship running from carbon dioxide emissions to health expenditures in China. In the other selected countries, no such relationship has been identified.

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The Effect of Environmental Degradation on the Financing of Healthcare

Cited by 17 publications

References 41 publications

The roles of economic growth and health expenditure on CO2 emissions in selected Asian countries: a quantile regression model approach

The roles of economic growth and health expenditure on CO2 emissions in selected Asian countries: a quantile regression model approach

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

The Relationship between CO2 and Health Expenditures in BRICS-T Countries

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