doi: 10.18178/ijesd.2022.13.2.1371
Assessing the Environmental Effects on Dengue Fever and Malaysian Economic Growth
C. H. Tan1
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S. B. Ho2
- 1the Faculty of Management, Multimedia
- 2the Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Multimedia
Abstract
Environmental degradation is prone to increasesevere weather conditions, such as heat waves and prolongedrainfall. The purpose of the study is to examine the effect ofclimate factors (temperature, rainfall, rain days, humidity, sealevel pressure), floods and extreme events like tropical storm,tornado, typhoon and strong wind on dengue fever cases andMalaysian economic growth in the period of year 2014-2020. Acorrelation test was used to find the relationship between theindependent, dependent and moderating variables. The studywas carried out using secondary monthly data. The resultsshowed a significant correlation between the climate change,dengue fever cases and economic growth in Malaysia.Temperature, humidity, sea level pressure and rain fallrevealed a positive correlation with dengue fever cases, whilerainy days and floods showed negative correlations. Besidesthat, increase of temperature, humidity, sea level pressure andfloods moderate with dengue fever cases significantly lead to alower economic growth.
Keywords
- Climate change
- economic growth
- environmental degradation
- health
How to Cite
C. H. Tan, S. N. Lee, and S. B. Ho, "Assessing the Environmental Effects on Dengue Fever and Malaysian Economic Growth," International Journal of Environmental Science and Development, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 49-56, 2022. https://doi.org/10.18178/ijesd.2022.13.2.1371
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