Environmental Quality and Its Attendant Effect on Human Health: New Evidence from Panel Quantile Regression for Anglophone Countries in West Africa

Aduralere Opeyemi Oyelade; Olamide David Tijani; Mumini Oluwaseyi Wakile; Adeyemi Lookman Kanimodo

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Environmental Quality and Its Attendant Effect on Human Health: New Evidence from Panel Quantile Regression for Anglophone Countries in West Africa

Aduralere Opeyemi Oyelade, Olamide David Tijani, Mumini Oluwaseyi Wakile, Adeyemi Lookman Kanimodo

Published in International Journal of Immunology (Volume 8, Issue 4)

Received: 27 December 2019 Accepted: 6 January 2020 Published: 28 December 2020

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Abstract

An estimated seven million people per year die from emission-related diseases. These include stroke and heart disease, respiratory illness and cancers. Many health-harmful emission pollutants also damage the climate and reducing emission pollution would save lives and help slow the pace of near-term climate change. This study investigated the environmental quality and its attendant effect on human health from Anglophone countries in West Africa over the period of 1990 to 2013 using panel quantile regression. The result obtained showed that the CO₂ emission that can affect the health of Anglophone countries in West Africa are CO₂ emissions from gaseous fuel consumption, CO₂ emissions from liquid fuel consumption, CO₂ emissions from residential buildings and commercial and public services, CO₂ emissions from solid fuel consumption, CO₂ emissions from transport. Other control variables that have influence on human health were health expenditure, mortality rate and fertility rate. Therefore, the policy makers should implement policies (like energy conservation policies) that will control emission from gaseous fuel consumption, emissions from liquid fuel consumption, emissions from residential buildings and commercial and public services, emissions from solid fuel consumption and emissions from transport. Also, health sector has to be properly cater for by spending more on health and this can only increase the health outcomes in a country.

Published in	International Journal of Immunology (Volume 8, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.iji.20200804.14
Page(s)	89-95
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Life Expectancy, CO₂ Emissions, Panel Data Analysis, Panel Quantile Regression

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Aduralere Opeyemi Oyelade, Olamide David Tijani, Mumini Oluwaseyi Wakile, Adeyemi Lookman Kanimodo. Environmental Quality and Its Attendant Effect on Human Health: New Evidence from Panel Quantile Regression for Anglophone Countries in West Africa. Int J Immunol. 2020;8(4):89-95. doi: 10.11648/j.iji.20200804.14

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Aduralere Opeyemi Oyelade

Department of Economics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Olamide David Tijani

Department of Economics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Mumini Oluwaseyi Wakile

Department of Economics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Adeyemi Lookman Kanimodo

Department of Economics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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Aduralere Opeyemi Oyelade, Olamide David Tijani, Mumini Oluwaseyi Wakile, Adeyemi Lookman Kanimodo. Environmental Quality and Its Attendant Effect on Human Health: New Evidence from Panel Quantile Regression for Anglophone Countries in West Africa. Int J Immunol. 2020;8(4):89-95. doi: 10.11648/j.iji.20200804.14

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