Energy Efficiency and Health Efficiency of Old and New EU Member States

2020
Environmental protection and health issues have always been of great concern. This study employed modified Meta-Frontier Dynamic Network Data Envelopment Analysis to explore the environmental pollution effects from energy consumption on the mortality of children and adults, tuberculosis rate, survival rate, and health expenditure efficiencies in 15 old EU states and 13 new EU states from 2010 to 2014. We calculated the overall efficiency scores and technology gap ratios for each old EU and new EU states as well as the efficiencies of non-renewable energy, renewable energy, PM2.5, CO2, labor, GDP, tuberculosis, child mortality, adult mortality, health expenditure efficiency, and survival efficiency at the health stage. The average annual overall efficiencies of the old EU states are higher than that of the new EU states. Whether in terms of energy efficiencies or health efficiencies, the inputs and outputs of the old EU states are always higher than that of the new EU states. Overall, developing countries in Eastern Europe are lagging behind in terms of energy and health efficiencies. At the same time, the efficiency of child mortality is lower than that of adult mortality, and the efficiency of PM2.5 is higher than that of CO(2)in both old and new EU states.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
卷号:8
收录类型
SSCI
发表日期
2020
学科领域
循证公共卫生
国家
中国
语种
英语
DOI
10.3389/fpubh.2020.00168
其他关键词
AIR-POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PROVINCIAL INDUSTRIAL SECTOR; PUBLIC-HEALTH; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG-FUNCTION; CHINA; CONSUMPTION; EMISSIONS; CO2
EISSN
2296-2565
资助机构
international innovation team program in philosophy and social sciences of Jilin university China's foreign trade and financial cooperation under the BRI [2019GJTD03]
资助信息
This study was supported by the international innovation team program in philosophy and social sciences of Jilin university China's foreign trade and financial cooperation under the BRI (2019GJTD03).
被引频次(WOS)
3
被引更新日期
2022-01
来源机构
Jilin University Soochow University National Cheng Kung University
关键词
energy efficiency health efficiency old EU states new EU states meta-frontier dynamic network DEA