Environmental quality and health expenditure in ECOWAS

Alimi, Olorunfemi Yasiru; Ajide, Kazeem Bello; Isola, Wakeel Atanda

doi:10.1007/s10668-019-00416-2

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“…Their results provided evidence for a direct relationship between CO 2 emission and health expenditure per capita. Alimi et al ( 2019 ) empirically investigated the impact of carbon emission on health expenditure. Using data for 15 West African countries for the years 1995–2014, they found environmental degradation increases health expenditures.…”

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confidence: 99%

“… Wu et al (2020) Taiwan 1995Q1–2016Q4 Wavelet analysis There is unidirectional causality from HE per capita to CO 2 emission per capita. Alimi et al ( 2019 ) 15 ECOWAS 1995–2014 Pooled OLS, FE, System GMM Carbon emission has a positive effect on public HE, but no effect on private HE. Abdullah et al ( 2016 ) Malaysia 1970–2014 ARDL, ECM CO 2 , SO 2 , NO 2 have a negative effect on HE in LR, but a positive effect in SR.GDP, FR, MR effects HE negatively in LR and SR. Yu et al ( 2016 ) 31 Chinese provinces 1997–2014 FMOLS, Panel based ECM In LR waste gas, dust and smog, and water waste increase HE.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Air quality and a healthy environment are compromised by many developing and developed countries for the sake of rapid output growth. Due to deteriorating air quality and environment, demand for health expenditures increases to keep healthy life possible (Alimi et al 2019 ). Air pollution alone causes premature deaths of 7 million people worldwide each year (UNEP 2020 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Their focus was either on determinants of health care expenditures, including pollution (Apergis et al, 2018a , b ) or elasticities of health care expenditures (Murthy and Okunade 2016 ). However, few studies used different proxies for public and private health expenditures (Alimi et al 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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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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

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

Erdoğan¹,

Kırca²,

Gedikli³

2020

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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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Flush toilet use and its impact on health and non‐health expenditures

Li,

Vatsa,

2024

J of Intl Development

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This study analysed the effects of flush toilet use on health and non‐health expenditures incurred by rural Chinese. The instrumental‐variable‐based Tobit and endogenous treatment regression models were used to analyse the 2016 China Labour Force Dynamics Survey data while addressing the selection bias inherent in flush toilet use. The results showed that by improving rural residents' physical and mental health, flush toilet use reduced per capita health expenditure while increasing non‐health expenditure. Furthermore, using flush toilets had positive spillover effects, reducing the health expenditures of even those who did not use them. Factors affecting flush toilet use were also analysed.

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Environmental quality and health expenditure in ECOWAS

Cited by 54 publications

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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

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

Flush toilet use and its impact on health and non‐health expenditures

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