School of Management, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China.
Human Resource Department, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China.
Front Public Health. 2022 Oct 21;10:1005060. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1005060. eCollection 2022.
In the current times, the global economies and international organizations declared that pollution is one of the prominent causes of declined human health. Still, most literature is biased toward economic sustainability and ignores such vital issues. The current study tends to identify the factors affecting public health in the Group of Seven economies except for Italy (G6). Specifically, this study aims to investigate the influence of household waste (HHW), bureaucratic quality (BQ), democratic accountability (DA), urbanization growth (URP), GDP per capita, and renewable energy use (EPR) on public health, throughout 1996-2020. This study uses advanced panel data approaches and finds the heterogeneity of slope coefficients, the dependence of cross-sections, and the persistence of cointegration between the variables. The asymmetric distribution of data leads to employing the novel method of moment quantile regression. The estimated results reveal that URP, GDPPC, and EPR significantly increase domestic general government health expenditures, improving public health. However, HHW and BQ adversely affect public health by reducing health expenditures. The robustness of the results is tested utilizing the panel quantile regression. Based on the empirical findings, this study suggests policies regarding the improvement in public health expenditure, R&D investment, spending in renewable energy sector, and strengthening of the institutional quality.
在当前时代，全球经济和国际组织都宣称，污染是导致人类健康状况恶化的主要原因之一。然而，大多数文献都偏向于经济可持续性，而忽略了这些至关重要的问题。本研究旨在确定除意大利（G7 成员国中的唯一例外）之外的七国集团（G6）经济体中影响公众健康的因素。具体来说，本研究旨在调查家庭废物（HHW）、官僚质量（BQ）、民主问责制（DA）、城市化增长（URP）、人均国内生产总值和可再生能源使用（EPR）对公众健康的影响，时间跨度为 1996 年至 2020 年。本研究采用先进的面板数据分析方法，发现了斜率系数的异质性、横截面的依赖性以及变量之间的协整关系的持久性。数据的非对称分布导致使用新的矩分位数回归方法。估计结果表明，URP、GDPPC 和 EPR 显著增加了国内一般政府的卫生支出，从而改善了公众健康。然而，HHW 和 BQ 通过减少卫生支出对公众健康产生了不利影响。结果的稳健性通过面板分位数回归进行了检验。基于实证研究结果，本研究建议采取改善公共卫生支出、研发投资、可再生能源部门支出以及加强制度质量等政策。
