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Health implications of economic growth: the role of air pollution

IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering, 2019-11, Vol.640 (1), p.12095 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Health implications of economic growth: the role of air pollution
  • Author: Afolabi, A ; Urhie, E ; Ogunbiyi, T ; Ogundiran, F ; Afolabi, A
  • Subjects: Air pollution ; Cost control ; Depletion ; Economic development ; Economic growth ; Economics ; GDP ; Gross Domestic Product ; Hayes ; Health care facilities ; Health Performance in Nigeria ; Households ; Income ; Income generation ; Life expectancy ; Mediation Analysis ; Natural resources ; Process
  • Is Part Of: IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering, 2019-11, Vol.640 (1), p.12095
  • Description: Economic growth comes with benefit and cost. The benefits include improved standard of living, better health care facilities and longer years of living as well as better chances of attaining higher education. There are also costs to economic growth. Economic growth entails increasing productive and consumption activities that can lead to health challenges, increase in income inequality, depletion of natural resources and increased environmental pollution, especially air pollution. Air pollution also indirectly affects income generation and savings for households. It places additional cost burden on governments. This paper thus evaluated the relationship that exists between economic growth and health performance in Nigeria vis-à-vis air pollution. The study used the PROCESS software to estimate the direct, indirect and total effects of economic growth on the health performance in Nigeria. The study found a direct and positive relationship exist between gross domestic product and life expectancy, variables used to capture both economic growth and health performance in Nigeria. It further found that the relationship could be indirectly effected with the use of a transmission mechanism, in this case-air pollution, to show that economic growth may not always lead to better health outcomes.
  • Publisher: Bristol: IOP Publishing
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1757-8981
    EISSN: 1757-899X
    DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/640/1/012095
  • Source: IOPscience (Open Access)
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