Environment and air pollution: health services bequeath to grotesque menace.

Muhammad Imran Qureshi, Amran Md Rasli, Usama Awan, Jian Ma, Ghulam Ali, Arif Alam, Faiza Sajjad, Khalid Zaman
Author Information
  1. Muhammad Imran Qureshi: Faculty of Management, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, UTM Skudai, 81310, Johor, Malaysia.

Abstract

The objective of the study is to establish the link between air pollution, fossil fuel energy consumption, industrialization, alternative and nuclear energy, combustible renewable and wastes, urbanization, and resulting impact on health services in Malaysia. The study employed two-stage least square regression technique on the time series data from 1975 to 2012 to possibly minimize the problem of endogeniety in the health services model. The results in general show that air pollution and environmental indicators act as a strong contributor to influence Malaysian health services. Urbanization and nuclear energy consumption both significantly increases the life expectancy in Malaysia, while fertility rate decreases along with the increasing urbanization in a country. Fossil fuel energy consumption and industrialization both have an indirect relationship with the infant mortality rate, whereas, carbon dioxide emissions have a direct relationship with the sanitation facility in a country. The results conclude that balancing the air pollution, environment, and health services needs strong policy vistas on the end of the government officials.

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MeSH Term

Air Pollution
Carbon Dioxide
Conservation of Natural Resources
Energy-Generating Resources
Health Services
Humans
Industry
Infant
Infant Mortality
Least-Squares Analysis
Life Expectancy
Malaysia
Models, Statistical
Public Health
Urbanization
Water Purification
Water Resources

Chemicals

Carbon Dioxide

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