Socio-economic and environmental factors influenced the United Nations healthcare sustainable agenda: evidence from a panel of selected Asian and African countries

Saleem, Hummera; Jiandong, Wen; Aldakhil, Abdullah Mohammed; Nassani, Abdelmohsen A.; Abro, Muhammad Moinuddin Qazi; Zaman, Khalid; Khan, Aqeel; Hassan, Zainudin; Rameli, Mohd Rustam Mohd

doi:10.1007/s11356-019-04692-3

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“…The cause-effect relationship between women's autonomy and environmental quality is also evident in the earlier studies; for instance, Saleem et al [39] confirmed the oneway causal links between carbon emissions and maternal risks of death from a panel of 21 Asian and African countries. Salahodjaev and Jarilkapova [40] found that a more significant proportion of parliamentarian women have an environmental attitude to conserve nature through increasing forestation.…”

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confidence: 65%

Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Mujeed

Jabeen

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Sustainability

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The role of women in economic development and the global environment is vital for progressing them towards the United Nations sustainable development goal (SDG-5) that emphasized the need to empower women in every walk of life. The study examines women’s autonomy in the sustainable development agenda under China’s open innovation system from 1975 to 2019. The study employed an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, vector autoregressive (VAR) Granger causality, and innovation accounting matrix to estimate parameters. The existing data are summarized and collated in the context of China to explain as a correlational study. The results show that women’s autonomy moderated with technology spills over to decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and substantiate the hump-shaped relationship between them. The increased spending on research and development (R&D) activities, patent publications, and renewable energy consumption empowers women to be equipped with the latest sustainable technologies to improve environmental quality. The pollution haven hypothesis verifies a given country, where trade liberalization policies tend to increase polluting industries to set up their plants that engaged in dirty production that exacerbate GHG emissions. The causality estimates confirmed that technological innovations and renewable energy consumption leads to women’s autonomy. In contrast, females’ share in the labor force participation rate leads to an increase in renewable energy consumption. Thus, it is evident that there is a positive role of women in the country’s sustainable development.

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Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

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Jabeen

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“…2017) have also stressed the need to regulate the activities, aviation operations, and so forth, responsible for emissions and implement green strategies to tackle health concerns. Saleem et al (2019) also posited that the utilization of non-RENG that is, traditional sources of energy including coal, gas, fossil fuels, and so forth deteriorate the environment, causing serious health issues and troubling mortality indicators around economies. Consequently, huge investment in HTLE becomes necessary to avoid the harmful effects of ENC on Health as was also suggested by Haseeb, Kot, Hussain, and Jermsittiparsert (2019) that the higher levels of ENC in any nation, boost health-related concerns and trigger environmental pollution.…”

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confidence: 99%

Investigating the nexus between energy, economic growth, and environmental quality: A road map for the sustainable development

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Godil

Quddoos

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This endeavor explores the nexus between health expenditure, consumption of renewable energy, economic growth, and the quality of the environment in 10 central European nations from 2005 to 2018 utilizing the techniques of fully generalized least square (FGLS) and generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation. The outcomes reveal the significant association between health, economic, and environmental factors with green energy utilization. The utilization of fossil fuels negatively influences the quality of the environment and boosts the risk of several diseases associated with the undernourishment and respiratory system and thus increases the death ratio. Furthermore, the utilization of operations based on renewable energy usage exerts a substantial favorable influence upon residents of Central European (CE) nations and thus helps decrease health and pollution-related expenses. So, there needs to be a collaboration among all the stakeholders so that green growth in the service and industrial sectors can be achieved.

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“…In Asia and Africa, a study assessed whether environmental factors largely influenced the United Nations healthcare sustainable agenda from a panel of selected Asian and African countries. The change in CO2 emissions (Coefficient 5.681, p < 0.003) and PM 2.5 particulate emission (Coefficient 1.557, p < 0.000) are associated with increases in high mortality rate across countries (Saleem et al 2019).…”

Section: Environmental Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Asian and African countries, one study evaluated socioeconomic factors that influenced the United Nations healthcare sustainable agenda using a panel data of 21 countries. The results show that changes in price level (the coefficient values of 0.006, p < 0.000), life risks of maternal death (Coefficient 4.579, p < 0.001), and under-5 mortality rate (Coefficient 0.374, p < 0.001) substantially increases out-ofpocket health expenditures, while prevalence of undernourishment (Coefficient 15.184, p < 0.001), unemployment, and private health expenditures (Coefficient 30.729, p < 0.001) are associated with high mortality rate across countries (Saleem et al 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Granger causality estimates confirmed the different causal mechanisms between socioeconomic and environmental factors, which is causally linked with the country's healthcare agenda. For example, the causality running from CO2 emissions to life risks of maternal death and under-5 mortality rate, from PM 2.5 emissions to infant mortality rate, and from mortality indicators to per capita income (Saleem et al 2019).…”

Section: Contextual and Sociocultural Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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