Gold Mining Pollution and the Cost of Private Healthcare: The Case of Ghana
Gold Mining Pollution and the Cost of Private Healthcare: The Case of Ghana
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.06.025
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发表时间：
2017-12-01
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7
通讯作者：
Normanyo, Ametefee K.
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作者：
Akpalu, Wisdom;Normanyo, Ametefee K.
为了吸引更多的外国直接投资进入其金矿开采行业，撒哈拉以南非洲许多矿产资源丰富的国家一直愿意忽视矿业公司不遵守环境标准的严重情况。这些监管和执法失误导致许多采矿社区污染严重。与污染相关的疾病风险很可能导致受影响社区的医疗支出越来越高。在本研究中，我们利用加纳金矿开采数据提出并估计了一个享乐型模型，该模型将医疗保健支出与居民接触采矿污染的程度联系起来。我们的经验结果证实了这一点，弹性系数为 0.12。此外，虽然男性和女性之间的医疗保健支出没有差异，但在控制健康状况、收入和医疗保险获得情况后，年轻的户主比年长的户主在健康方面的支出更多。 (C) 2017 年由 Elsevier B.V. 出版
To attract greater levels of foreign direct investment into their gold-mining sectors, many mineral-rich countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been willing to overlook serious instances of mining company non-compliance with environmental standards. These lapses in regulatory oversight and enforcement have led to high levels of pollution in many mining communities. The likelihood is high that the risk of pollution-related sicknesses will necessitate increasingly high healthcare expenditures in affected communities. In this study, we propose and estimate a hedonic-type model that relates healthcare expenditure to the degree of residents' exposure to mining pollution using data obtained on gold mining in Ghana. This has been confirmed by our empirical results, with an elasticity coefficient of 0.12. Furthermore, while healthcare expenditure does not vary between males and females, younger household heads spend more on their health than their older counterparts after controlling for health status, income and access to health insurance. (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier B.V.