The Influence of Environmental Factors on Human Health: Economic Estimations for Ukraine

Kubatko Oleksandr () and Kubatko Oleksandra

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Abstract: This paper estimates the influence of pollution on population health outcomes throughmeasuring direct and indirect pollution health effects. It is found that air pollution increase thenumber of population morbidities, and responsible on average for 10.3% of all incidents ofcardiovascular morbidity; 11% of digestion morbidity cases, 16% of respiratory morbidity cases,30% and 10.5% of man lung cancer and women lung cancer respectively. Also air pollution isresponsible on average for 3.6% of all mortality cases in Ukraine. Total economic costs attributed toair pollution and selected morbidity indicators in 2011 were in a range 0.7%-1.3% of GDP.

JEL-codes: I Q (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-02-02
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