Health, environment, and sustainable development: evidence from panel data from ASEAN countries

IF 2.9 4区环境科学与生态学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Air Quality Atmosphere and Health Pub Date : 2023-12-15 DOI:10.1007/s11869-023-01483-1

Muhammad Azam, Faridul Islam, Salim Rashid

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Abstract

The paper explores empirically the nexus of environmental quality, measured by carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions, and human-health-capital formation, using covariates: real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, inflation, and unemployment rate. This study uses a health expenditure approach and data from a panel of seven ASEAN countries from 1995 to 2020 within the health production function framework. The method of fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) is implemented to estimate the long-run parameters and the Dumitrescu-Hurlin (Econ Model 29:1450–1460, 2012) test for the direction of causality. The empirical results reveal that high CO₂ emissions raise health expenditure as do inflation and unemployment rate. While rising income makes higher healthcare costs affordable, this fact might persuade policymakers to adopt measures to cut CO₂ to improve human-health-capital formation and thus to support long-run sustainable economic growth through healthy human capital formation.

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健康、环境和可持续发展：来自东盟国家面板数据的证据

摘要本文利用协变量：实际人均国内生产总值（GDP）、通货膨胀率和失业率，从实证角度探讨了以二氧化碳（CO2）排放量衡量的环境质量与人类健康资本形成之间的关系。本研究在健康生产函数框架内，采用健康支出方法和 1995 年至 2020 年七个东盟国家的面板数据。采用完全修正普通最小二乘法（FMOLS）估算长期参数，并采用 Dumitrescu-Hurlin （Econ Model 29:1450-1460, 2012）检验因果关系的方向。实证结果显示，与通货膨胀和失业率一样，高二氧化碳排放量会增加医疗支出。收入的增加使人们能够负担更高的医疗费用，这一事实可能会说服政策制定者采取措施削减二氧化碳，以改善人类健康资本的形成，从而通过健康的人力资本形成支持长期可持续的经济增长。

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Air Quality Atmosphere and Health ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-

CiteScore

8.80

自引率

2.00%

发文量

146

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Air Quality, Atmosphere, and Health is a multidisciplinary journal which, by its very name, illustrates the broad range of work it publishes and which focuses on atmospheric consequences of human activities and their implications for human and ecological health. It offers research papers, critical literature reviews and commentaries, as well as special issues devoted to topical subjects or themes. International in scope, the journal presents papers that inform and stimulate a global readership, as the topic addressed are global in their import. Consequently, we do not encourage submission of papers involving local data that relate to local problems. Unless they demonstrate wide applicability, these are better submitted to national or regional journals. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health addresses such topics as acid precipitation; airborne particulate matter; air quality monitoring and management; exposure assessment; risk assessment; indoor air quality; atmospheric chemistry; atmospheric modeling and prediction; air pollution climatology; climate change and air quality; air pollution measurement; atmospheric impact assessment; forest-fire emissions; atmospheric science; greenhouse gases; health and ecological effects; clean air technology; regional and global change and satellite measurements. This journal benefits a diverse audience of researchers, public health officials and policy makers addressing problems that call for solutions based in evidence from atmospheric and exposure assessment scientists, epidemiologists, and risk assessors. Publication in the journal affords the opportunity to reach beyond defined disciplinary niches to this broader readership.