The Effect of Water Pollution on Health Economics: A Panel Data Approach

Water pollution is chemical, biological, microbic pollution, and pollution by waste materials in lakes, rivers, oceans and underground waters. Pollutants that cause water pollution include a wide range of chemical materials, pathogens, sensory and physical changes like increase in temperature and changes in color. Water pollution, whether biological, that is due to the existence of pathogenic microbes, or chemical, that is due to the existence of polluting chemical materials, causes many illnesses and several disorders to individual or public health. Therefore, the main purpose of this article investigation is the impact of water pollution on death rate and Health Expenditure as indicators of health economics in a the selected European countries. This article is an applied research, causal and inferential research by methodology.
The results of the estimation models using Fixed Effect shows that water pollution has a significant and positive effect on death rate and Health Expenditure as indicators of health economics in the selected countries. The scarcity of water resources and their pollution is an alarm call indicating the shortage of healthy water resources in the future. To counter this crisis, water consumption management is the best option