# Climate Change and Health: Causal Economic Evidence
> Discover how climate change causally impacts mortality, mental health, and infant development through the lens of top-tier health economics research.

Tags: climate-change, health-economics, public-health, mortality-rates, mental-health, causal-inference, policy-research
## Slide 1: Climate Change and Health: Evidence from Causal Economic Studies
* Author: Emran Mollah
* Seminar: Health Economics (WS 2025/2026), University of Duisburg-Essen
* Supervisor: Diem Hoang Xuan

## Slide 2: Motivation
* Climate change is an escalating crisis (rising temperatures, extreme weather).
* Impacts: Mortality, Mental Health, Infant & Child Health.
* Need for rigorous causal evidence for policy design.

## Slide 3: Research Objectives
* Focus Areas: Temperature & Mortality, Mental Health, Early-life health.
* Methodology: Identification strategies, causal mechanisms, and the role of institutions.

## Slide 4: Global Coverage
* High-income: USA, Sweden
* Middle-income: Mexico, China
* Low-income: Uganda, Kyrgyz Republic

## Slide 5: Methodology
* Narrative Review of top journals: AEJ, Journal of Health Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics.
* Models: Fixed-effects, Quasi-experimental, Natural experiments.

## Slide 6-8: Identification & Measurement
* Exposure: Weather variation relative to local norms (>85°F Heat, <25°F Cold).
* Challenges: Socioeconomic confounding and selective migration.
* Strategies: Panel data, Policy discontinuities (e.g., China coal heating), Historical cohorts.

## Slide 9-10: Mortality and Adaptation
* Extreme heat increases mortality non-linearly.
* Historically warmer regions show lower heat mortality due to acclimatization.
* Public health infrastructure significantly mitigates climate shock risks.

## Slide 11: Mental Health
* Higher temperatures are causally linked to worsened psychiatric outcomes (increased ER visits/suicides).

## Slide 12: Early-life Impacts
* Rainfall shocks increase infant mortality.
* Droughts/Floods lead to a 4-7% increase in child stunting.
* Extreme temps increase fetal mortality.

## Slide 13: Indirect Channels: Air Pollution
* Climate links to health via pollution (PM levels).
* Coal heating policy in China raised PM levels and heating-season mortality (~14%).

## Slide 14-15: Policy and Conclusion
* Recommendations: Healthcare investment, adaptive capacity, and protecting vulnerable groups.
* Summary: Institutional capacity is a mitigator, but adaptation alone is insufficient for long-term climate impacts.
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