Rethinking Aid Allocation: Analysis of Official Development Spending on Modern Pollution Reduction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Modern pollution - pollution attributable to industrialization and urbanization - is responsible for nearly 6 million deaths per year, more than all the deaths from HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis combined; yet it receives comparatively little attention in the international development agenda [1].

Objective/methods

This study attempts to highlight the funding disparity between select key threats to global health by quantifying the levels of international official development aid (ODA) allocated to reducing pollution's negative impact on human health using a new metric - dollars spent per death caused by health threat.

Findings

Using only reported ODA spending for 2016, we calculate an average investment of $14/death for modern pollution, compared with $1,250

SUBMITTER: Swinehart S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6838771 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature