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Environmental factors and its influence on human health in BRICS: implications for human development

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BRICS economies are facing severe environmental issues that exert a detrimental impact on human health. The analysis intends to examine the impact of CO2 emissions, environmental policy stringency, and environmental innovations on health outcomes for the BRICS economies. The long-run results of the ARDL-PMG infer that CO2 has a significant negative in the life expectancy model while it has a significant positive in the death rate model. These findings imply that the rise in CO2 emissions reduces life expectancy and increases the death rate in BRICS economies. On the other side, the estimates of environmental innovation and environmental policy stringency are positively significant in the life expectancy model; however, in the death rate model, the estimate of environmental innovation is insignificant, and environmental policy stringency is negatively significant in the death rate model. In a nutshell, the findings imply that CO2 emissions exacerbate health problems, environmental innovations, and environmental policy stringency, improving the health status of the people. Our findings suggest that the BRICS economies should revisit their environmental policies for the betterment of human health.

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 72274116 and 71673121), Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (Grant No. 2021A1515011599), STU Scientific Research Initiation Grant (Grant No. STF20012) and Open Fund of Key Research Base of Philosophy and Social Science of Higher Education in Guangdong Province-Local Government Development Research Institute of Shantou University (Grant No. 07419005 and 07421005).

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  1. Department of Public Administration, Law School, Shantou University, 243 Daxue Road, Shantou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

    Wenxin Wang & Hong Jiang

  2. Institute of Local Government Development, Shantou, 515063, People’s Republic of China

    Wenxin Wang & Hong Jiang

  3. Institute of Business Management Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38040, Pakistan

    Muhammad Hafeez, Waseem Ahmad & Hammad Badar

  4. Department of Mathematical Methods in Economics, Tashkent State University of Economics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

    Raufhon Salahodjaev

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The idea was given by Hong Jinag and Wenxin Wang. Muhammad Hafeez, Hong Jinag, Wenxin Wang, and Waseem Ahmad, and they have done the data acquisition and analysis and written the whole draft. Hammad Badar and Ruafhon Salahodjev read and approved the final version.

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Wang, W., Hafeez, M., Jiang, H. et al. Environmental factors and its influence on human health in BRICS: implications for human development. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 22509–22519 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-23678-2

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