Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 1075-1094Publisher
MOLECULAR DIVERSITY PRESERVATION INTERNATIONAL-MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph6031075
Keywords
Environmental health policy; waste tires; health outcome
Funding
- Teachers College of Columbia University
- Research Council Grant [202272, 202361]
- Rutgers University
- State University of New Jersey, U.S.A
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This paper examines the effectiveness of Taiwanese environmental health policies, whose aim is to improve environmental quality by reducing tire waste via the Tire Resource Recovery Program. The results confirm that implemented environmental health policies improve the overall health of the population (i.e. a decrease in death caused by bronchitis and other respiratory diseases). Current policy expenditures are far below the optimal level, as it is estimated that a ten percent increase in the subsidy would decrease the number of deaths caused by bronchitis and other respiratory diseases by 0.58% per county/city per year on average.
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