ArticleBMC public health2024
ICT penetration and life expectancy in emerging market economies: panel evidence from asymmetric causality analysis.
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- Unpacking the influence of ICT on respiratory diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Impact of air pollution on life expectancy: the role of digitalization, urbanization and institutional quality in BRICS economies.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- ICT, health expenditures, and healthy life expectancy: empirical evidence from the Sub-Saharan African states.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The long-term effect of social, educational, and health expenditures on indicators of life expectancy: an empirical analysis for the OECD countries.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Do Environmental Degradation, ICT, Health Expenditure, and Institutional Quality Affect Life Expectancy?American journal of men's healthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundLife expectancy is a significant result indicator of public health and sustainable development. Therefore, one of the final objectives of all economic and social policies is to increase the life expectancy. In this context, a limited number of researchers have investigated the relationship between ICT penetration and life expectancy. However, multiple interaction channels exist between ICT penetration and life expectancy. Furthermore, the studies have usually focused on the effect of ICT penetration on life expectancy through regression and ignored the effect of life expectancy on ICT penetration to a large extent. Therefore, this study aims to contribute to the empirical literature by investigating the causal relationship between ICT indicators and life expectancy.
methodsThis study uses symmetric and asymmetric causality approaches to investigate the two-way interaction between ICT indicators and life expectancy in emerging market economies over the 1997-2020 period. Employment of the asymmetric causality test enables us to analyze the hidden relationships between ICT indicators and life expectancy, unlike the traditional causality test.
resultsThe results of the symmetric causality test uncover a bidirectional causal interaction between mobile subscriptions and life expectancy but a one-way causal relationship from life expectancy to internet usage. However, the asymmetric causality test results uncover a unidirectional causal relationship between mobile subscriptions and life expectancy in China, Colombia, Czechia, Egypt, Greece, India, Kuwait and Turkiye due to positive shocks from mobile subscriptions. On the other hand, a bidirectional causal interaction exists between internet usage and life expectancy in all countries due to negative shocks from internet usage and life expectancy. Last, a unidirectional causal relationship exists between internet usage and life expectancy in all countries due to positive shocks from internet usage.
conclusionICT indicators significantly influence life expectancy health in a sample of emerging market economies. Therefore, internet usage and mobile devices are significant tools to improve life expectancy.
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