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The Economic Cost of Ill Health Due to Air Pollution : Evidence from Greece
Panteli, Maria; Delipalla, Sofia - 2022
-attributable health consequences in Greece, using the most recent data for all specific-cause mortality and morbidity outcomes. Employing … disease from air pollution is to a large extent preventable, estimation of the magnitude of its economic cost is important. We … pollution, as well as their joint effects, in Greece. Design/methodology/approach: We analyze the economic cost of the health …
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Effect of Air Pollution on Health Care Expenditure : Evidence from Respiratory Diseases
Liu, Ya-Ming; Ao, Chon-Kit - 2021
Recent reports show that at least 95% of the world’s population is breathing polluted air. However, the impact of air quality on air pollution-related medical expenditure and utilization is sparse. This study estimates the short-term health care cost impacts of air pollution using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322648
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Pandemic meets pollution: poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242834
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Pandemic meets pollution : poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263327
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The impact of air pollution on attributable risks and economic costs of hospitalization for mental disorders
Wu, Ziting; Chen, Xi; Li, Guoxing; Lin, Tian; Wang, Zhan; … - 2020
This study aims to fill the gap in our understanding about exposure to particulate matters with diameter less than 2.5 µm (PM2.5) and attributable risks and economic costs of mental disorders (MDs). We identify the relationship between PM2.5 and risk of hospital admissions (HAs) for MDs in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178092
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The impact of air pollution on attributable risks and economic costs of hospitalization for mental disorders
Wu, Ziting; Chen, Xi; Li, Guoxing; Lin, Tian; Wang, Zhan; … - 2020
This study aims to fill the gap in our understanding about exposure to particulate matters with diameter less than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) and attributable risks and economic costs of mental disorders (MDs). We identify the relationship between PM2.5 and risk of hospital admissions (HAs) for MDs in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162764
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Air pollution and respiratory infectious diseases
Provenzano, Sandro; Roth, Sefi; Sager, Lutz - 2023
respiratory infectious disease. We examine the relationship between the air quality index (AQI) and weekly cases of influenza …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545919
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COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution
Austin, Wes; Carattini, Stefano; Gomez Mahecha, John; … - 2020
mortality using an instrumental variable approach based on wind direction. Harnessing daily changes in county-level wind …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012298669
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Can property values capture changes in environmental health risks? : evidence from a stated preference study in Italy and the UK
Guignet, Dennis; Alberini, Anna - 2013
respondents. We examine how homeowners in the United Kingdom and Italy value mortality risk reductions by asking them to choose … among hypothetical variants of their home that differ in terms of mortality risks from air pollution and price. To our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189442
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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution : implications of climate change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2013
This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...
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