Industrialization, Environment and Health:the Impacts of Industrial SO_2 Emission on Public Health in China

作     者：He Jie 

作者机构：Département d＇Economique and GREDI Faculté d＇administration Université de Sherbrooke 2500 boulevard de I＇Univesité Sher brooke QC J1K2R1 Canada 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Population,Resources and Environment》 (中国人口·资源与环境（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2008年第6卷第1期

页      面：14-24页

学科分类：07[理学] 070602[理学-大气物理学与大气环境] 0706[理学-大气科学] 

主　　题：China industrial pollution public health aggregated data from survey pollution abatement 

摘      要：In this paper, we construct a model in which the impact of pollution on health is exerted through both direct and indirect channels. The indirect channel is captured by a production func-tion in which the principal health-improving factor, income growth, can be realized only in the cost of pollution increase. This model is then tested by the aggregated chronicle disease data in over 78 Chinese counties. Our results show, after attaining the threshold of 8 μg/m2, continuous increase in industrial SO2 emission density will lead the ratio of population suffering chronicle diseases, among which respiratory diseases occupy a significant proportion, to rise. However, owing to technological progress in pollution control activities, the needed SO2 emission to produce one unit of GDP diminishes with time. Therefore, the negative effect from pollution augmentation on public health seems to be recompensed more and more by the positive effect of economic growth.