Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 501-511Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-018-1012-0
Keywords
PM2.5; Exposure-response function; Cost-of-illness method; Willingness-to-pay method; Health effects; Economic losses
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [71473180, 71201010, 71303174, 71303076, 71673083]
- National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of China [14AZD068, 15ZDA054, 16ZZD049]
- Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Talents of Guangdong [2014A030306031]
- Soft Science Foundation of Guangdong [2014A070703062]
- Social Science Foundation of Guangdong [GD14XYJ21]
- High-level Personnel Project of Guangdong [[2013]246]
- Guangdong key base of humanities and social science-Enterprise Development Research Institute
- Institute of Resource, Environment and Sustainable Development Research
- Guangzhou key base of humanities and social science-Centre for Low Carbon Economic Research
- University of Economics Ho Chi Minh city, Vienam
- [Yue Jiaoshi [2016]95]
- [[2014]145]
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The concentrations of particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters less than 2.5 mu m (PM2.5) and 10 mu m (PM10) is a widespread concern and has been demonstrated for 103 countries. During the past few years, the exposure-response function (ERf) has been widely used to estimate the health effects of air pollution. However, past studies are either based on the cost-of-illness or the willingness-to-pay approach, and therefore, either do not cover intangible costs or costs due to the absence of work. To address this limitation, a hybrid health effect and economic loss model is developed in this study. This novel approach is applied to a sample of environmental and cost data in China. First, the ERf is used to link PM2.5 concentrations to health endpoints of chronic mortality, acute mortality, respiratory hospital admission, cardiovascular hospital admission, outpatient visitsinternal medicine, outpatient visitspediatrics, asthma attack, acute bronchitis, and chronic bronchitis. Second, the health effect of PM2.5 is monetized into the economic loss. The mean economic loss due to PM2.5 was much heavier in the North than the South of China. Furthermore, the empirical results from 76 cities in China show that the health effects and economic losses were over 4.98million cases and 382.30billion-yuan in 2014 and decreased dramatically compared with those in 2013.
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