Respiratory diseases in children and air pollution - the Cost-Of-Illness assessment in Ostrava city

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14560%2F20%3A00115266" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14560/20:00115266 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.2478/cejpp-2020-0003" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.2478/cejpp-2020-0003</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/cejpp-2020-0003" target="_blank" >10.2478/cejpp-2020-0003</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Respiratory diseases in children and air pollution - the Cost-Of-Illness assessment in Ostrava city

Original language description

The article addresses the need to identify and quantify the external costs of air pollution on the health of the population, especially children. The subject of the evaluation are the respiratory illnesses acute nasopharyngitis and acute bronchitis, both which have very high incidence in connection with air pollution. The aim of this paper is to estimate the cost of morbidity and to determine the amount of additional social costs of airway morbidity amongst children 0–15 years located in Ostrava city, one of most polluted cities in the Europe, compared to the incidence of these diseases in the whole Czech Republic. Estimation of social costs is based on the Cost-Of-Illness approach, in which the total value is made up of the costs actually incurred in treating illness and in loss of productivity. Using this approach, additional costs related to the treatment of illnesses were calculated at approximately €20 million per year, which represents approximately 0.4% of Ostrava's regional GDP.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Central European Journal of Public Policy

ISSN

1802-4866

e-ISSN

1802-4866

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

43-56

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85083368421