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Excess mortality and protected areas during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Italian municipalities

Becchetti, Leonardo; Conzo, Gianluigi; Conzo, Pierluigi; Salustri, Francesco; (2022) Excess mortality and protected areas during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Italian municipalities. Health Policy 10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.10.005. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

There is widespread debate on the drivers of heterogeneity of adverse COVID-19 pandemic outcomes and, more specifically, on the role played by context-specific factors. We contribute to this literature by testing the role of environmental factors as measured by environmentally protected areas. We test our research hypothesis by showing that the difference between the number of daily deaths per 1,000 inhabitants in 2020 and the 2018–19 average during the pandemic period is significantly lower in Italian municipalities located in environmentally protected areas such as national parks, regional parks, or Environmentally Protected Zones. After controlling for fixed effects and various concurring factors, municipalities with higher share of environmentally protected areas show significantly lower mortality during the pandemic than municipalities that do not benefit from such environmental amenities.

Type: Article
Title: Excess mortality and protected areas during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Italian municipalities
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.10.005
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.10.005
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: COVID-19, Mortality, Protected areas, Pollution
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10157963
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