Climate variability and infectious diseases nexus: evidence from Sweden

Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah, George Marbuah and Mwenya Mubanga ()
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Mwenya Mubanga: Dept. of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University

No 2016.02, Working Papers from FAERE - French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Abstract: In this paper, we present evidence based on a theoretical model developed that links the impact of climate variability on health. Using Swedish data on infectious diseases, we empirically estimate the causal relationship between climate variability and health outcomes. Generally, we find that the number of infectious disease patients and admissions are significantly driven by indicators of climate variability and socio-economic variables such as income and number of immigrants. Specifically, the effect of temperature variation on the health outcomes is ambiguous and sensitive to the choice of winter, summer or average temperature. Precipitation is relevant in explaining the number of infectious disease patients and admissions only when summer temperature considered in the model. Further, we find that an increase in carbon emissions directly causes the number patients and admissions in the summer. The relationship between infectious disease proxies (i.e. patients and admissions) and income per capita follows an inverted-U shape.

Keywords: Climate change; Infectious diseases; Migration; Sweden (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2016-02
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