Marine Protected Area Expansion and Country-Level Age-Standardized Adult Mortality

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• Personal Author:
  Bennett BJ ; Brewer TD ; Fleming, Lora E. ; Gribble MO ; Haque SS ; Morrissey K
• Description:
  Many countries have adopted targets to increase marine protected areas (MPAs) to limit the degradation of water bodies. Although there is evidence that MPAs can conserve marine life and promote biodiversity, there are limited data on the human health implications of MPAs. Using panel data from 1990, 2000, and 2014, we estimated the country-level associations between MPAs (i.e., percentage of territorial waters designated as marine reserves) and age-standardized mortality (i.e., age-standardized probability of dying between 15 and 60 years from all-causes among ages 15-60/100,000 population) by sex, among 110 countries. We fit mixed-effects linear regression models of mortality as a function of current MPA coverage, gross domestic product growth, year, the prior extent of MPA, electricity coverage, governance, and country-level random effects. We observed a significant inverse association between current MPA coverage and adult mortality. For each 5-percentage-point increase in current MPA coverage, a country had 0.982 times the geometric means of female and male mortality [geometric mean ratio: 0.982 (95% CI 0·976, 0·988)] conditional on past %MPA coverage and other modeled variables. The model showed no significant residual association of mortality with past %MPA conditional on current %MPA and other modeled variables. This is one of the first studies to show a positive association between increasing marine conservation and human health. This macro-level study suggests there may be important co-benefits for human health from expanding MPAs that merit further investigation. Correction 10.1007/s10393-023-01672-5: In this article the affiliation details for Baylin J. Bennett, Thomas D. Brewer and Lora E. Flemming were incorrectly given. The original article has been corrected. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Hunting Mortality Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Environmental Management Conservation Ecological Systems Ecosystem Services Environmental Health Environmental Management Fisheries Fishing Mortality Rates
• ISSN:
  1612-9202
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Alabama ; California ; Georgia ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  236-248
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20069313
• Citation:
  EcoHealth 2023 Sep; 20(3):236-248
• Contact Point Address:
  Matthew O. Gribble, Department of Medicine, Division of Occupational, Environmental and Climate Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 490 Illinois Street, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
• Email:
  matt.gribble@ucsf.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• Performing Organization:
  University of California, Berkeley
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  EcoHealth
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b5bd498ff2d7808b6c9ce423a1d5d6f0ec2eec3536e745d1253a70b37e6f0b2d019cf9b00807579e6e334bdc81614b9ece0d344bef1d88abafb578594cd654ea
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/207813/cdc_207813_DS1.pdf
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