Slathia Preeti, Vashishtha Ashutosh, Jena Pabitra Kumar, Sahu Pritish Kumar
School of Business, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Kakryal, 182320, Jammu & Kashmir, India.
Central University of Jammu, Rahya Suchani, Samba, 181143, Jammu & Kashmir, India.
Heliyon. 2024 Apr 23;10(9):e30136. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e30136. eCollection 2024 May 15.
This study aims to examine the impact of renewable energy, carbon emissions, and economic growth on healthcare spending in 36 Asian countries during 2000-2019. Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS) and Dynamic Ordinary Least Square (DOLS) models have been applied to the panel data for 36 Asian countries. The study's findings show that CO emissions in Asia increased due to public and private health spending, with the commercial health sector having a larger negative influence on CO emissions than the public sector. According to FMOLS and DOLS findings, carbon emissions and GDP are positively related to health spending, indicating that high economic growth through energy-intensive production processes leads to increased carbon emissions, but on the contrary, renewable energy consumption has decreased healthcare expenditure. This study advocates new policies to reduce carbon emissions and hospitalisation without jeopardising national economic growth. In order to achieve sustainable health services and an environmentally friendly future in Asia, health administrators must raise state and private healthcare spending while implementing an effective cost-service and energy-efficient management plan.
本研究旨在考察2000 - 2019年期间可再生能源、碳排放和经济增长对36个亚洲国家医疗支出的影响。完全修正普通最小二乘法（FMOLS）和动态普通最小二乘法（DOLS）模型已应用于36个亚洲国家的面板数据。研究结果表明，亚洲的碳排放因公共和私人卫生支出而增加，商业卫生部门对碳排放的负面影响大于公共部门。根据FMOLS和DOLS的研究结果，碳排放和国内生产总值与卫生支出呈正相关，这表明通过能源密集型生产过程实现的高经济增长导致碳排放增加，但相反，可再生能源消费降低了医疗支出。本研究倡导在不危及国家经济增长的情况下减少碳排放和住院率的新政策。为了在亚洲实现可持续的卫生服务和环境友好的未来，卫生管理人员必须提高国家和私人医疗支出，同时实施有效的成本 - 服务和节能管理计划。
