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Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon
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Significance: Nature threads the very fabric of human lives in remote forest areas of developing countries. Unfortunately, we do not fully understand how ecosystem services (such as human health benefits) could be secured by conserving natural capital. Thus, we analyze a rich dataset on disease, climate, demography, land uses, and conservation policies in the Brazilian Amazon. Unsurprisingly, we find that the health dividends vary across conservation policies and are small relative to the overall burden of these diseases. However, interventions targeted specifically at preserving biodiversity (strict protected areas) generate health cobenefits. Thus, given a chance, nature does its part for human (health) capital, especially for the poor and politically voiceless.
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Combining municipal panel data from about 700 Brazilian Amazon municipalities (2003–2006), this paper finds strict protected areas are negatively correlated with malaria, acute respiratory infection (ARI), and diarrhea, while roads and sustainable-use protected areas have mixed associations. Scenario estimates suggest that expanding strict protected areas between 1990 and 2010 by 63% reduced malaria, diarrhea, and ARI by 6%, 2%, and 1.5%, respectively, in an average municipality.
Key findings
- Strict protected areas are negatively correlated with malaria, diarrhea, and ARI; as expected for negative controls, strict protected areas are not correlated with AIDS, dengue, arthritis, or leukemia.
- Sustainable-use protected areas are not associated with diarrhea and ARI and are positively correlated with malaria; indigenous reserves are negatively correlated only with diarrhea.
- Roads are associated with higher malaria but lower diarrhea and ARI, consistent with dual effects on ecosystem disturbance and healthcare access.
- Quantile regressions show relationships vary by disease level: strict protected areas are negatively correlated with malaria at the 75th and 90th quantiles but with ARI only at the 90th, and with diarrhea at all points except the 90th; roads are positively correlated with malaria only at the upper end, but with diarrhea and ARI at all levels.
Methods
- Municipal-level panel dataset for the Brazilian Amazon covering 4 years (2003–2006) and about 700 municipalities, with 25 variables including malaria, dengue, AIDS, arthritis, and leukemia cases in the population and diarrhea and ARI cases in children under 2 years of age; health program coverage; weather; demographics; socioeconomic factors; and land-use drivers (strict, sustainable-use, and indigenous protected areas, roads, and mining).
- Random-effects/error-components panel models and quantile regressions (10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th quantiles), with standardized coefficients presented for key land-use drivers and negative-control diseases used as falsification tests for protected-area effects.
- Data sources include DATASUS, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, the Ministry of the Environment, and IMAZON for road length.
Limitations
- The paper states that regression results may be biased by omitted confounders, observed or unobserved; that more rigorous causal impact analysis would require longer time-series data; that negative controls may not be valid for all land-use drivers because those drivers have multiple impact channels (e.g., roads could increase AIDS); and that the analysis does not consider the full range of benefits or costs of protected areas, mining, or roads.
- Evident from the text: the analysis is observational and reports correlations rather than causal estimates; the panel covers only 4 years; diarrhea and ARI are measured in children under 2 years of age, not the whole population; and municipal aggregation may mask individual-level behaviors and exposure.
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“strict PAs are negatively correlated with malaria in the 75th and 90th quantiles but with ARI only in the 90th quantile.”
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“Fig. 1 also shows that municipalities with more roads have higher rates of malaria but lower rates of diarrhea and ARI.”
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“First, we find mixed evidence on the influence of roads: They are associated with increases in malaria and decreases in diarrhea and ARI cases.”
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“natural water bodies are positively correlated with all three diseases, altitude is negatively correlated with malaria, and in the summer higher temperature and rainfall (which could, for example, flush pathogens down river) are negatively correlated with all three diseases (23,42,43).”
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“strict PAs are negatively correlated with diarrhea at all points of the distribution, except at the 90th quantile.”
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“natural water bodies are positively correlated with all three diseases, altitude is negatively correlated with malaria, and in the summer higher temperature and rainfall (which could, for example, flush pathogens down river) are negatively correlated with all three diseases (23,42,43).”
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“natural water bodies are positively correlated with all three diseases, altitude is negatively correlated with malaria, and in the summer higher temperature and rainfall (which could, for example, flush pathogens down river) are negatively correlated with all three diseases (23,42,43).”
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“we find that sustainable-use PAs, which allow for human use and/or occupation, are not associated with diarrhea and ARI and are positively correlated with malaria.”
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“roads are positively correlated with malaria only at the upper end of the distribution, whereas roads are positively correlated with diarrhea and ARI at all levels of the distribution.”
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“Results vary by disease for other types of protected areas (PAs), roads, and mining.”
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“Fig. 1 also shows that municipalities with more roads have higher rates of malaria but lower rates of diarrhea and ARI.”
- Also stated in: § Discussion · hedged
“First, we find mixed evidence on the influence of roads: They are associated with increases in malaria and decreases in diarrhea and ARI cases.”
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“Turning to our negative controls, we find that as expected, strict PAs are not correlated with AIDS, dengue, arthritis, or leukemia.”
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“Unsurprisingly, we find that the health dividends vary across conservation policies and are small relative to the overall burden of these diseases.”
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“If we reestimate all models by dropping the most urban municipios, we find the population coefficient to be either statistically insignificant or positive and significant.”
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“As reported in Results, we do not identify spurious relationships between PAs and these health outcomes, confirming that our strategy is reasonable.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Arthritis and leukemia have no known conceptual or empirical links to conservation actions.
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“Roads increase mobility and hence both the spread of disease and access to medical services.”
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“Thus, these negative controls are best viewed as falsification tests only for the health impacts of PAs.”
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“Informal mining is associated with water pollution as well as working and living conditions that increase exposure to mosquitos.”
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“All of these policies can be manipulated to reduce deforestation, which in turn reduces air and water pollution from forest fires, erosion, and agriculture.”
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“Our estimates suggest that this expansion reduced ARI, diarrhea, and malaria by 1.5%, 2%, and 6%, respectively, in an average municipality.”
§ Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon > Discussion
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“Dengue is transmitted primarily in urban areas, where it has expanded rapidly in Brazil (49).”
§ Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon > Materials and Methods
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“Underlying drivers of deforestation and land use more generally include mining (36), roads (53), and PAs (54).”
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“The Brazilian Amazon is an appropriate setting to explore the health impacts of ecosystem changes because it has undergone both rapid land-use change, including conversion of nearly a fifth of the original forest cover to other land uses, and significant conservation efforts, including establishment of PAs covering 44% of the region (39).”
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“Recent approximations attribute as much as 24% of the global burden of disease (GBD) to poor environmental quality, including land-use patterns (9,10).”
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“To check whether the estimated coefficients in models of malaria, ARI, and diarrhea could reflect underlying correlations between public health and placement of PAs, we also estimate models of dengue, AIDS, arthritis, and leukemia as negative controls that theory suggests are not related to landscape-level ecosystem change.”
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“To assess whether our results could be due to some omitted variables that influence both land-use policies and public health, we estimate models of negative controls that have no theoretical relationship with rural ecosystems: dengue, arthritis, leukemia, and AIDS.”
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“Reduced deforestation can also prevent the proliferation of mosquito breeding sites and microclimates conducive to anopheline development and growth, and conserve biodiversity including mosquito predators and species that dilute the transmission of malaria itself (13,40).”
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“Conservation scenarios based on estimated regression results suggest that malaria, ARI, and diarrhea incidence would be reduced by expanding strict PAs, and malaria could be further reduced by restricting roads and mining.”
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“Health is a universal development concern (one of three components of human development indices) and very likely to be directly affected by land use and land-use policy (3).”
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“This supports the contention that roads can plausibly both damage ecosystems and improve access to formal health services.”
§ Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon > Results
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“Prior research has found the PSF to be effective at decreasing mortality rates among infants and children (50)(51)(52).”
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“Standardized coefficients have been more widely used in other social sciences (55) and recommended for use in ecology (56).”
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“The PSF could also be positively correlated with disease outcomes, as it might reflect the government's response to high disease rates in some regions.”
§ Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon > Materials and Methods
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The four negative control diseases (AIDS, dengue, arthritis, and leukemia) are not theoretically related to landscape-level ecological changes.
“we model four diseases that serve as negative controls for the link between PAs and disease because they are not theoretically related to landscape level ecological changes: AIDS, dengue, arthritis, and leukemia (Materials and Methods).”
The paper relies on this without support.
Even less evidence exists on how specific conservation policies affect multiple health outcomes.
“Even less evidence exists on how specific conservation policies affect multiple health outcomes.”
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The unexplained residual variation in the health outcome (the error) is unrelated to the land-use drivers.
“We assume that the unexplained residual variation in the health outcome (the error) is unrelated to the landuse drivers, which largely reflect federal government decisions (about placement of roads and PAs) and the distribution of mineral resources.”
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Arthritis and leukemia have no known conceptual or empirical links to conservation actions.
“Arthritis and leukemia have no known conceptual or empirical links to conservation actions.”
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§ Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon
“For example, our results suggest that the expansion of the strict PAs between 1990 and 2010 reduced the incidence of all diseases considered, most notably malaria.”
§ Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon > Results
“Turning to our negative controls, we find that as expected, strict PAs are not correlated with AIDS, dengue, arthritis, or leukemia.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bauch, S. C., Birkenbach, A. M., Pattanayak, S. K., & Sills, E. O.
- Affiliations
- Inter-American Development Bank (US)
- Duke University (US)
- North Carolina State University (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2015-06-15
- Volume
- 112
- Issue
- 24
- Pages
- 7414-7419
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC4475939
- OpenAlex
- W2125132456
- Cited by
- 120
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 4
- FWCI
- 9.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Public Health and Environmental Issues
- Keywords
- ecosystem change, public health, protected areas, conservation policy, land use change, malaria, acute respiratory infections, diarrhea, environmental protection, roads, mining, natural capital, health co-benefits, Brazilian Amazon
- MeSH terms
- Brazil, Conservation of Natural Resources, Diarrhea, Humans, Malaria, Public Health, Regression, Psychology, Respiratory Tract Infections, Incidence, Infection Control, Ecosystem
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