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Evaluation of the Waste Tire Resources Recovery Program and Environmental Health Policy in Taiwan

This paper examines the effectiveness of Taiwanese environmental health policies, whose aim is to improve environmental quality by reducing tire waste via the Tire Resource Recovery Program. The results confirm that implemented environmental health policies improve the overall health of the populati...

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Autores principales: Chen, Chia-Ching, Yamada, Tetsuji, Chiu, I-Ming, Liu, Yi-Kuen
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19440434
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph6031075
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author Chen, Chia-Ching
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Chiu, I-Ming
Liu, Yi-Kuen
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description This paper examines the effectiveness of Taiwanese environmental health policies, whose aim is to improve environmental quality by reducing tire waste via the Tire Resource Recovery Program. The results confirm that implemented environmental health policies improve the overall health of the population (i.e. a decrease in death caused by bronchitis and other respiratory diseases). Current policy expenditures are far below the optimal level, as it is estimated that a ten percent increase in the subsidy would decrease the number of deaths caused by bronchitis and other respiratory diseases by 0.58% per county/city per year on average.
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spelling pubmed-26723792009-05-13 Evaluation of the Waste Tire Resources Recovery Program and Environmental Health Policy in Taiwan Chen, Chia-Ching Yamada, Tetsuji Chiu, I-Ming Liu, Yi-Kuen Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This paper examines the effectiveness of Taiwanese environmental health policies, whose aim is to improve environmental quality by reducing tire waste via the Tire Resource Recovery Program. The results confirm that implemented environmental health policies improve the overall health of the population (i.e. a decrease in death caused by bronchitis and other respiratory diseases). Current policy expenditures are far below the optimal level, as it is estimated that a ten percent increase in the subsidy would decrease the number of deaths caused by bronchitis and other respiratory diseases by 0.58% per county/city per year on average. Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2009-03 2009-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2672379/ /pubmed/19440434 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph6031075 Text en © 2009 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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title_short Evaluation of the Waste Tire Resources Recovery Program and Environmental Health Policy in Taiwan
title_sort evaluation of the waste tire resources recovery program and environmental health policy in taiwan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19440434
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph6031075
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