Feng Yongqi, Yu Xinye, Chiu Yung-Ho, Lin Tai-Yu
School of Economics, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Department of Economics, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Front Public Health. 2020 Jun 9;8:168. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00168. eCollection 2020.
Environmental protection and health issues have always been of great concern. This study employed modified Meta-Frontier Dynamic Network Data Envelopment Analysis to explore the environmental pollution effects from energy consumption on the mortality of children and adults, tuberculosis rate, survival rate, and health expenditure efficiencies in 15 old EU states and 13 new EU states from 2010 to 2014. We calculated the overall efficiency scores and technology gap ratios for each old EU and new EU states as well as the efficiencies of non-renewable energy, renewable energy, PM2.5, CO, labor, GDP, tuberculosis, child mortality, adult mortality, health expenditure efficiency, and survival efficiency at the health stage. The average annual overall efficiencies of the old EU states are higher than that of the new EU states. Whether in terms of energy efficiencies or health efficiencies, the inputs and outputs of the old EU states are always higher than that of the new EU states. Overall, developing countries in Eastern Europe are lagging behind in terms of energy and health efficiencies. At the same time, the efficiency of child mortality is lower than that of adult mortality, and the efficiency of PM2.5 is higher than that of CO in both old and new EU states.
环境保护与健康问题一直备受关注。本研究采用改进的元前沿动态网络数据包络分析方法，探讨了2010年至2014年期间15个欧盟老成员国和13个欧盟新成员国能源消耗对儿童和成人死亡率、结核病发病率、生存率以及卫生支出效率的环境污染影响。我们计算了每个欧盟老成员国和新成员国的总体效率得分和技术差距比率，以及健康阶段不可再生能源、可再生能源、PM2.5、一氧化碳、劳动力、国内生产总值、结核病、儿童死亡率、成人死亡率、卫生支出效率和生存效率的效率。欧盟老成员国的年均总体效率高于新成员国。无论是在能源效率还是健康效率方面，欧盟老成员国的投入和产出始终高于新成员国。总体而言，东欧发展中国家在能源和健康效率方面滞后。同时，在欧盟老成员国和新成员国中，儿童死亡率的效率低于成人死亡率，PM2.5的效率高于一氧化碳。
