Air pollution, economic growth and health care expenditure

By Soheila khoshnevis Yazdi, B. Khanalizadeh. 2017

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Abstract In this article, we examine the role of environmental quality and economic growth in the determination of health expenditure in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) countries for the period 1995–2014 using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method to explore the estimating the impacts of economic growth and environmental quality on heath expenditure. The results show that health expenditure, income, CO2 and PM10 emissions are a cointegrated panel. While long-run elasticities show that income and CO2 and PM10 emissions have statistically significant positive effects on health expenditure. The results show that the income elasticity is inelastic, that health expenditure is not more sensitive to income and the adjustment to changes in income in MENA countries.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. J. Hussain
2. Ahsan Jamal Akbar
3. Sadia Bano
4. A. Hussain
5. Irfan Ullah
6. Anwar Khan
7. C. Yang
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In General Health Professions

1. Ahsan Jamal Akbar
2. Sadia Bano
3. A. Hussain
4. J. Hussain
5. Irfan Ullah
6. Anwar Khan
7. C. Yang
8. Minhas Akbar

In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. Ahsan Jamal Akbar
2. A. Hussain
3. Irfan Ullah
4. Minhas Akbar

Citations in the corpus

• The dynamic association between healthcare spending, CO2 emissions, and human development index in OECD countries: evidence from panel VAR model (2020, background): “2019; Khoshnevis Yazdi and Khanalizadeh 2017; Wang et  al.”
• The repercussions of foreign direct investment, renewable energy and health expenditure on environmental decay? An econometric analysis of B&RI countries (2020, background): “In a similar study for the MENA region, Khoshnevis Yazdi and Khanalizadeh (2017) highlighted that health expenditure is a source for enhancing economic activities at the cost of the environment; and Jorgenson and Burns (2004), in a panel of 20 countries, have found that health expenditure is the…”