Evaluation of the Waste Tire Resources Recovery Program and Environmental Health Policy in Taiwan

Chia-Ching Chen, Tetsuji Yamada, I-Ming Chiu () and Yi-Kuen Liu
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Chia-Ching Chen: New York Medical College School of Public Health, 95 Grasslands Road, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA
Tetsuji Yamada: Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, 311 North Fifth Street, Camden, New Jersey 08102, USA
Yi-Kuen Liu: Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) of Taiwan, No.83, Sec. 1, Jhonghua Rd., Jhongjheng District, Taipei City 100, Taiwan

IJERPH, 2009, vol. 6, issue 3, 1-20

Abstract: This paper examines the effectiveness of Taiwanese environmental health policies, whose aim is to improve environmental quality by reducing tire waste via the Tire Resource Recovery Program. The results confirm that implemented environmental health policies improve the overall health of the population (i.e. a decrease in death caused by bronchitis and other respiratory diseases). Current policy expenditures are far below the optimal level, as it is estimated that a ten percent increase in the subsidy would decrease the number of deaths caused by bronchitis and other respiratory diseases by 0.58% per county/city per year on average.

Keywords: environmental health policy; waste tires; health outcome (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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