Tackling the chronic disease burden: are there co-benefits from climate policy measures?
| Autor: | Désirée Vandenberghe, Johan Albrecht |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Carbon tax Meat 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Natural resource economics Yield (finance) Climate Cost-Benefit Analysis Economics Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Belgium Risk Factors Health care medicine Animals Humans Computer Simulation Disabled Persons 030212 general & internal medicine health care economics and organizations 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Health economics business.industry Public health Health Policy Reproducibility of Results Non-communicable disease Carbon Dioxide Taxes medicine.disease Diet Greenhouse gas Chronic Disease Particulate Matter Business Quality-Adjusted Life Years Health Expenditures Models Econometric Public finance |
| Zdroj: | The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care. 19(9) |
| ISSN: | 1618-7601 |
| Popis: | Each year, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) kill 40 million people worldwide and impose an estimated economic burden of $600 billion. Without effective policymaking, NCDs will continue to undermine health and economic systems globally. We propose that climate policy measures—such as carbon pricing—can yield significant health-related co-benefits aside from their intended greenhouse gas emission reduction. We simulate three carbon tax scenarios in the energy and food sector in Belgium and assess the resulting health-related co-benefits. These benefits originate from decreased exposure to two leading NCD risk factors: fine particulate matter and dietary regimes excessive in animal products. The carbon tax could prevent 42,300–78,800 Disability-Adjusted Life Years in Belgium, or save 0.6–1.1% of total health care expenditure and an additional 0.06–0.12% of Belgian GDP. We conclude that these health-related co-benefits should be included in the cost–benefit analysis of carbon pricing. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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