Sustainability
Protecting Blue Skies and Health: Can “Key Controlled Areas for Air Pollution Prevention and Control” Contribute to the Sustainable Development of Residents’ Health?
This paper examines whether the establishment of “Key Controlled Areas for Air Pollution Prevention and Control” and its associated policy package in China improved residents’ health. Based on data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) 2011–2018, Our study finds that this command-and-control environmental regulation is associated with notable declines in residents’ morbidity from asthma, lung disease, and heart disease, while also producing preventive effects. Potential channel analysis i …