US Pollution Death Rate vs. Overall Death Rate
China Pollution Death Rate vs. Overall Death Rate
India Pollution Death Rate vs. Overall Death Rate
Sweden Pollution Death Rate vs. Overall Death Rate
Liberia Pollution Death Rate vs. Overall Death Rate
Surprisingly, there was an overall decrease in the ratio between pollution and the overall death rate. This means that there was a decrease in deaths caused by air pollution along with an increase in the overall death rate per year and country.
Possible causes of this may be confounding variables present that were not accounted for in the dataset, such as healthcare access and infrastructure, global epidemics, and population age.
One drawback that was present due to this methodology is an inability to access the direct cause of the air pollution deaths, which could lead to this surprising result of a seeming decrease in deaths due to air pollution. This could be misinterpreted to show that there are no negative consequences to climate change, which is an inaccurate representation of reality. Thus, our findings are not representative of the overall effect of climate change on global health, and the restrictions caused by our datasets must be noted.
In order to improve our results, additional datasets can be included to increase the information gleaned in relation to air pollution deaths; specifically, we can include specific causes of deaths in relation to air pollution, such as respiratory infections and heart diseases. This would present a more accurate representation of the scope of climate change on global health. Furthermore, we could expand the model to include additional countries in different regions of the world, instead of focusing on the 3 categories of countries (developing, emerging, and developed). Expanding the number of countries analyzed would allow us to understand the impact of climate change on population health in terms of geographic location as well as economic stability.