Mortality Risk Valuation in Environment, Health and Transport Policies

Mortality Risk Valuation in Environment, Health and Transport Policies
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9264130802

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The book presents a major meta-analysis of 'value of a statistical life' (VSL) estimates derived from surveys where people around the world have been asked about their willingness to pay for small reduction in mortality risks.

Valuing mortality risk reductions : progress and challenges

Valuing mortality risk reductions : progress and challenges
Author: Maureen L. Cropper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2011
Genre: Economics
ISBN:

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Abstract: The value of mortality risk reduction is an important component of the benefits of environmental policies. In recent years, the number, scope, and quality of valuation studies have increased dramatically. Revealed-preference studies of wage compensation for occupational risks, on which analysts have primarily relied, have benefited from improved data and statistical methods. Stated-preference research has improved methodologically and expanded dramatically. Studies are now available for several health conditions associated with environmental causes and researchers have explored many issues concerning the validity of the estimates. With the growing numbers of both types of studies, several meta-analyses have become available that provide insight into the results of both methods. Challenges remain, including better understanding of the persistently smaller estimates from stated-preference than from wage-differential studies and of how valuation depends on the individual's age, health status, and characteristics of the illnesses most frequently associated with environmental causes

Valuation of Environment-Related Health Risks for Children

Valuation of Environment-Related Health Risks for Children
Author: Alberini Anna
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2010-12-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9264038043

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This report, the final output of the Valuation of Environment-Related Health Impacts (VERHI) project, presents new findings on whether the value of reducing environmental risk greater for children than for adults.

Economic Valuation of Environmental Health Risks to Children

Economic Valuation of Environmental Health Risks to Children
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2006-02-03
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

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The relationship between environment and children’s health has been the subject of increasing interest these last ten years. For instance, many OECD Member countries are reporting asthma epidemics exacerbated by air pollution: in the United States nearly 1 in 13 school-age children (approximately 4.8 million) has asthma, and the rate is increasing more rapidly in school-age children than in any other group. The importance of this issue has resulted in a growing number of epidemiological studies aiming at better understanding and better characterising the relationship between environmental pollution and the health of children. However, in many respects, the valuation of children’s health strongly differs from the valuation of adults’ health and constitutes a real challenge for analysts as well as for decision-makers. Consequently, this book proposes an in depth analysis of the main methodological difficulties associated with estimating the social value of a reduction in risk to children. Questions such as how to elicit children’s preferences, what valuation methodology and benefit measure to choose, how to discount benefits to children’s health, and how to account for economic uncertainties in this specific context of economic valuation will be systematically examined in order to define key policy implications and to pave the way for further research.