TY - JOUR
T1 - Impacts of air pollution on health
T2 - evidence from longitudinal cohort data of patients with cardiovascular diseases
AU - Afoakwah, Clifford
AU - Nghiem, Son
AU - Scuffham, Paul
AU - Huynh, Quan
AU - Marwick, Tom
AU - Byrnes, Joshua
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to the two anonymous referees for their suggestions on improving the earlier version of the manuscript. This paper was presented at the Brown Bag Seminar Series at the Centre for Applied Finance and Economics (CAFÉ), University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. We are grateful to the participants for their comments. This project benefitted financially from National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC): Program Grant number 1055214 and Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) Grant number 1044897.
Funding Information:
We are grateful to the two anonymous referees for their suggestions on improving the earlier version of the manuscript. This paper was presented at the Brown Bag Seminar Series at the Centre for Applied Finance and Economics (CAFÉ), University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. We are grateful to the participants for their comments. This project benefitted financially from National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC): Program Grant number 1055214 and Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) Grant number 1044897.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2020/9/1
Y1 - 2020/9/1
N2 - This study uses longitudinal cohort data to estimate the impacts of air pollution on health outcomes among people first hospitalised with heart diseases. Despite the generally low level of pollution in Australia, we find that acute exposure to pollution increases readmissions to hospitals within 3–12 months after discharge and is more evident among those suffering from heart failure. We further show that chronic exposure to air pollution increases the risk of death within 72 months, hospital admissions and general practitioner (GP) visits. Patients with coronary heart disease or cerebrovascular disease are the most affected groups. Finally, a cost saving of $1.3 billion will be generated to the health sector, if the monthly concentration of PM10 and CO was lowered to 15.49 µg/m3 and 122.99 µg/m3, respectively. The findings from our study emphasize the need for policies that target significant reduction in ambient PM10 and CO to decrease the demand for scarce healthcare resources for cardiac diseases.
AB - This study uses longitudinal cohort data to estimate the impacts of air pollution on health outcomes among people first hospitalised with heart diseases. Despite the generally low level of pollution in Australia, we find that acute exposure to pollution increases readmissions to hospitals within 3–12 months after discharge and is more evident among those suffering from heart failure. We further show that chronic exposure to air pollution increases the risk of death within 72 months, hospital admissions and general practitioner (GP) visits. Patients with coronary heart disease or cerebrovascular disease are the most affected groups. Finally, a cost saving of $1.3 billion will be generated to the health sector, if the monthly concentration of PM10 and CO was lowered to 15.49 µg/m3 and 122.99 µg/m3, respectively. The findings from our study emphasize the need for policies that target significant reduction in ambient PM10 and CO to decrease the demand for scarce healthcare resources for cardiac diseases.
KW - Air pollution
KW - Cardiovascular disease
KW - Cost savings
KW - Health outcomes
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85084800069
U2 - 10.1007/s10198-020-01198-5
DO - 10.1007/s10198-020-01198-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 32415421
AN - SCOPUS:85084800069
SN - 1618-7598
VL - 21
SP - 1025
EP - 1038
JO - European Journal of Health Economics
JF - European Journal of Health Economics
IS - 7
ER -
SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being