Complements, Not Substitutes? Health Systems, Institutional Quality, and the PM2.5–NCD Mortality Nexus—A Global Panel Analysis
This study investigates whether Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and institutional quality—proxied by the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)—moderate the association between ambient PM2.5 exposure and adult non-communicable disease (NCD) mortality. Using a country-year panel of 157 countries over 2012–2021, we estimated...