Structural energy poverty vulnerability and excess winter mortality in the European Union: Exploring the association between structural determinants and health
By M. Recalde, Andrés Peralta, L. Oliveras, Sergio Tirado-Herrero, C. Borrell, L. Palència, M. Gotsens, L. Artazcoz, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo. Energy Policy, 2019
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Abstract Energy poverty (EP) is a growing problem in the European Union (EU) that affects the population's health. EP is structurally determined by broader political and socio-economic conditions. Our aims were to analyze the configuration of these determinants in each EU-27 country through the creation of a structural energy poverty vulnerability (SEPV) index, to group countries according to their SEPV index scores, and to explore the association between SEPV and EP prevalence, and also with excess winter mortality (EWM). We created a SEPV index through seriated principal component analyses and then validated the index. We performed a hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) to group countries according to their SEPV. A Poisson regression model was fitted to analyze the association between SEPV and EWM. The final index comprised 13 indicators and showed an unequal distribution of SEPV across the EU. The HCA identified countries with high structural vulnerability (southeastern Europe) and countries with low structural vulnerability (northwestern Europe). The most vulnerable countries showed a statistically significant higher EP prevalence and risk of EWM. The SEPV index summarizes the structural determinants of EP across the EU, allows to identify geographical patterns and to study how the structural determinants of EP affect health.
Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution
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- Determinants, persistence, and dynamics of energy poverty: An empirical assessment using German household survey data (2021, background): “Recently there is a growing number of country-level studies examining the prevalence of energy poverty in other European countries (Meyer et al., 2018; Aristondo & Onaindia, 2018; Karpinska & Śmiech, 2020b) as well as comparative cross-country studies for the European Union (Thomson & Snell, 2013; ”
- Objective vs. subjective fuel poverty and self-assessed health (2020, background): “The role of geographic setting in fuel poverty has recently gained relevance (Fahmy et al., 2011; Robinson et al., 2018; Besagni and Borgarello, 2019; Gouveia et al., 2019; Horta et al., 2019; Mashhoodi et al., 2019; Recalde et al., 2019; Sánchez-Guevara et al., 2019).”
- Energy poverty and public health: Global evidence (2021, background): “…made theoretical and empirical inroads into explaining the relationship between energy poverty and health have focused predominantly on European countries (e.g., Kahouli, 2020; Llorca et al., 2020; Oliveras et al., 2021; Recalde et al., 2019; Rodríguez-Álvarez et al., 2019; Thomson et al., 2017).”