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The connection between environmental pollution, health expenditure and economic growth has become a focus point in academic literature in recent periods. In this study, panel data analysis examined whether CO2 emissions in Turkey, Brazil, Mexico, China, India and South Africa in the period 2000-2016 had a relationship between economic growth and health expenditure. The empirical findings of the study showed that there were a bilateral causal relationship between health expenditure and economic growth, a bilateral causal relationship between health expenditure and CO2 emissions, and a bilateral causal relationship between economic growth and CO2 emissions. This result supports the feedback hypothesis (Double-Oriented Cause) in literature. The results of the study provide empirical evidence for policy makers at the point where adequate health spending levels, better environmental quality and higher social welfare levels can be achieved by policy measures connected to each other.

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