TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of environmental cleanliness and cultural factors on child health in Africa
AU - Zakari, Abdulrasheed
AU - Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad
AU - Tawiah, Vincent
AU - Alvarado, Rafael
AU - Li, Guo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - Africa is a region with abundant natural resources, but the child mortality rate is higher. Despite World Health Organization (WHO) support, the region remained the highest with the number of child mortality rate. Given this fact, this study examines the role of environmental degradation, clean water source, and sanitation facilities on child mortality and life expectancy/longevity in Africa. To achieve this objective, we employ pooled regression and system generalized method of moment (S-GMM) on 33 African countries between 2000 and 2014. We found that environmental degradation is positively related to child mortality and life expectancy or longevity. However, clean water sources and sanitation facilities help to reduce the child mortality rate and help to improve life expectancy. Also, we found cultural norms improve child mortality and life expectancy. Our results imply that African countries are benefitting from cultural values, clean water sources, and sanitation facilities.
AB - Africa is a region with abundant natural resources, but the child mortality rate is higher. Despite World Health Organization (WHO) support, the region remained the highest with the number of child mortality rate. Given this fact, this study examines the role of environmental degradation, clean water source, and sanitation facilities on child mortality and life expectancy/longevity in Africa. To achieve this objective, we employ pooled regression and system generalized method of moment (S-GMM) on 33 African countries between 2000 and 2014. We found that environmental degradation is positively related to child mortality and life expectancy or longevity. However, clean water sources and sanitation facilities help to reduce the child mortality rate and help to improve life expectancy. Also, we found cultural norms improve child mortality and life expectancy. Our results imply that African countries are benefitting from cultural values, clean water sources, and sanitation facilities.
KW - Africa
KW - Child health
KW - Environment cleanness
KW - Life expectancy
KW - National cultures
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85127722592&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11356-022-20016-4
DO - 10.1007/s11356-022-20016-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 35389169
AN - SCOPUS:85127722592
SN - 0944-1344
VL - 29
SP - 59619
EP - 59632
JO - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
JF - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
IS - 39
ER -
