Afolabi, A. and Urhie, Ese S and Ogunbiyi, T. and Ogundiran, F. and Afolabi, A. (2019) Health implications of economic growth: the role of air pollution. In: 1st International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructural Development, 2019, Online.
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Economic growth comes with benefit and cost. The benefits include improved standard of living, better health care facilities and longer years of living as well as better chances of attaining higher education. There are also costs to economic growth. Economic growth entails increasing productive and consumption activities that can lead to health challenges, increase in income inequality, depletion of natural resources and increased environmental pollution, especially air pollution. Air pollution also indirectly affects income generation and savings for households. It places additional cost burden on governments. This paper thus evaluated the relationship that exists between economic growth and health performance in Nigeria vis-à-vis air pollution. The study used the PROCESS software to estimate the direct, indirect and total effects of economic growth on the health performance in Nigeria. The study found a direct and positive relationship exist between gross domestic product and life expectancy, variables used to capture both economic growth and health performance in Nigeria. It further found that the relationship could be indirectly effected with the use of a transmission mechanism, in this caseair pollution, to show that economic growth may not always lead to better health outcomes.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Air pollution, Economic growth, Health Performance in Nigeria, Mediation Analysis, Hayes, Process |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Management Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Mrs Patricia Nwokealisi |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2022 10:35 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2022 10:35 |
| URI: | http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/16093 |
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