Climate change, poverty and child health inequality: evidence from Vietnam’s provincial analysis

IF 4 3区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Economic Change and Restructuring Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI:10.1007/s10644-024-09743-5

Cong Minh Huynh, Bao Khuyen Tran

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Abstract

This paper investigates how climate change and poverty affect child health inequality across 63 provinces in Vietnam from 2006 to 2023. By examining deaths and economic losses from storms and floods, we assess climate change’s impact; while, infant mortality rate (IMR) and under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) serve as indicators of child health inequality. Findings reveal that climate change directly worsens child health inequality and exacerbates it indirectly by increasing poverty. Notably, the effects on U5MR are more pronounced than on IMR. Additionally, child vaccinations, healthcare infrastructure, and access to clean water are vital in reducing health disparities and mitigating climate change’s harmful effects on child health.

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气候变化、贫困与儿童健康不平等：来自越南省级分析的证据

本文研究了从 2006 年到 2023 年，气候变化和贫困如何影响越南 63 个省的儿童健康不平等。通过研究风暴和洪水造成的死亡人数和经济损失，我们评估了气候变化的影响；而婴儿死亡率（IMR）和 5 岁以下儿童死亡率（U5MR）则是儿童健康不平等的指标。研究结果表明，气候变化直接加剧了儿童健康不平等，并通过增加贫困间接加剧了儿童健康不平等。值得注意的是，气候变化对五岁以下幼儿死亡率的影响比对幼儿死亡率的影响更为明显。此外，儿童疫苗接种、医疗保健基础设施和清洁水的获取对于缩小健康差距和减轻气候变化对儿童健康的有害影响至关重要。

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Economic Change and Restructuring ECONOMICS-

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期刊介绍： Economic Change and Restructuring has been accepted for SSCI and will get its first Impact Factor in 2020!Since the early 1990s fundamental changes in the world economy, under the auspices of increasing globalisation, have taken place On one hand, the disappearance of the centrally planned economies and the progressive formation of market-oriented economies, have brought about countless systematic changes, where new economic structures, institutions, competences and skills involve complex processes, changes which are still underway and which necessitate adaptation and restructuring to form competitive market economies. On the other hand, many developing economies are making great strides as regards economic reform and liberalisation, and are emerging as new global players. They show an innovative capacity to position themselves in the global economy and to compete with industrialised countries, which are generally believed to be witnessing the rapid erosion of their established positions. These developments are accompanied by the exacerbation of the world competition. Both processes involve transition and the emerging economies, in searching for a new role and scope for public policies and for a new balance between public and private partnership, seem to currently be converging, especially with respect to the policies needed to create appropriate and effective market institutions and integrated reform policies, and to increase the standards of the population''s education levels. Thus, liberalisation and development policies, in attempting to strike a difficult balance between social and environmental needs, must be integrated more coherently. This complexity calls for new analytical and empirical approaches that can explain these new phenomena, which often go beyond the over-simplified facts and conventional ''wisdom'' that emerged at the start of the transition in the early 1990s. Economic Change and Restructuring (formerly ''Economics of Planning''), by keeping abreast of developments affecting both transitional and emerging economies, is aimed to attract original empirical and policy analysis contributions that are focused on various issues, including macroeconomic analysis, fiscal issues, finance and banking, industrial and trade development, and regional and local development issues. The journal aspires to publish cutting edge research and to serve as a forum for economists and policymakers working in these fields.Officially cited as: Econ Change Restruct