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Author : Maureen Cropper
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781568063706
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Public Preferences for Life Saving written by Maureen Cropper and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Uma Subramanian
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Public Choices Between Lifesaving Programs how Important are Lives Saved? written by Uma Subramanian and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: August 1995 - Do funding priorities for health and safety policies reflect irrational fears? the disaster of the month - rather than address more fundamental problems? A thousand people were surveyed to gauge popular feelings about funding choices between environmental and public health programs. In developing and industrial countries alike, there is concern that health and safety policy may respond to irrational fears - to the disaster of the month - rather than address more fundamental problems. In the United States, for example, some policymakers say the public worries about trivial risks while ignoring larger ones and that funding priorities reflect this view. Many public health programs with a low cost per life saved are underfunded, for example, while many environmental regulations with a high cost per life saved are issued each year. Does the existing allocation of resources reflect people's preoccupation with the qualitative aspects of risks, to the exclusion of quantitative factors (lives saved)? Or can observed differences in the cost per life saved of environmental and public health programs be explained by the way the two sets of programs are funded? Cropper and Subramanian examine the preferences of U.S. citizens for health and safety programs. They confronted a random sample of 1,000 U.S. adults with choices between environmental health and public health programs, to see which they would choose. The authors then examined what factors (qualitative and quantitative) seem to influence these choices. Respondents were asked about pairs of programs, among them: smoking education or industrial pollution control programs, industrial pollution control or pneumonia vaccine programs, radon eradication or a program to ban smoking in the workplace, and radon eradication or programs to ban pesticides. The survey results, they feel, have implications beyond the United States. They find that, while qualitative aspects of the life-saving programs are statistically significant in explaining people's choices among them, lives saved matter, too. Indeed, for the median respondent in the survey, the rate of substitution between most qualitative risk characteristics and lives saved is inelastic. But for a sizable minority of respondents, choice among programs appears to be insensitive to lives saved. The interesting question for public policy is what role the latter group plays in the regulatory process. This paper - a joint product of the Environment, Infrastructure, and Agriculture Division, Policy Research Department, and the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Asia Technical Department - is part of a larger effort in the Bank to see what can be learned about efficient environmental policy by examining the U.S. experience with environmental regulation. The authors may be contacted at mcropper@@worldbank.org or usubramanian@@worldbank.org.
Author : Richard T. Carson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351881574
Total Pages : 1880 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Stated Preference Approach to Environmental Valuation, Volumes I, II and III written by Richard T. Carson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 1880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a truly enormous literature on using stated preference information to place a monetary value on environmental amenities. This three volume set provides the key papers for understanding the historical development of contingent valuation, its theoretical and statistical foundations, and the major controversies. It also contains representative papers covering all of the major application areas in environmental valuation.
Author : John Brazier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198725922
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation written by John Brazier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With limited resources and funding, it is impossible to invest in all potentially beneficial health care interventions. Choices have to be made, and this guide allows the reader to measure and value the benefits of interventions, a key component of economic evaluation, which permits comparisons between interventions.
Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9789241545518
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Summary Measures of Population Health written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2002 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As life expectancy rates continue to increase in many countries around the world, comparative health assessments based on mortality rates alone give an increasingly inadequate picture of public health. This publication addresses a wide range of key issues regarding the measurement of population health using comprehensive indices which combine data on mortality and ill-health. It considers the various uses of such summary measures, as well as an appropriate measurement framework and specific ethical and social value choices involved. The contributors to this book include leading experts in epidemiological methods, ethics, health economics, health status measurement and the valuation of health states.
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Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843692988
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Analysis of Private and Social Discount Rates in Costa Rica, An written by and published by IIED. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David L. Greene
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642590640
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)
Download or read book The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation written by David L. Greene and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern transportation systems have far-reaching, and serious consequences: deaths and injuries from accidents, pollution of air, water and groundwater, noise congestion, and the greenhouse effect. As world transport systems expand and become increasingly motorised, the transportation community is searching for systems that are both efficient and sustainable. Here, leading international researchers explore the issues and concepts and define the state of knowledge concerning the full costs and benefits of transportation.
Author : Christian Gollier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400845408
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Pricing the Planet's Future written by Christian Gollier and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our path of economic development has generated a growing list of environmental problems including the disposal of nuclear waste, exhaustion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, climate change, and polluted land, air, and water. All these environmental problems raise the crucial challenge of determining what we should and should not do for future generations. It is also central to other policy debates, including, for example, the appropriate level of public debt, investment in public infrastructure, investment in education, and the level of funding for pension benefits and for research and development. Today, the judge, the citizen, the politician, and the entrepreneur are concerned with the sustainability of our development. The objective of Pricing the Planet's Future is to provide a simple framework to organize the debate on what we should do for the future. A key element of analysis by economists is the discount rate--the minimum rate of return required from an investment project to make it desirable to implement. Christian Gollier outlines the basic theory of the discount rate and the various arguments that favor using a smaller discount rate for more distant cash flows. With principles that can be applied to many policy areas, Pricing the Planet's Future offers an ideal framework for dynamic problems and decision making.
Author : Peter A. Ubel
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262710091
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Pricing Life written by Peter A. Ubel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rational look at health care rationing, from ethical, economic, psychological, and clinical perspectives. Although managed health care is a hot topic, too few discussions focus on health care rationing--who lives and who dies, death versus dollars. In this book physician and bioethicist Peter A. Ubel argues that physicians, health insurance companies, managed care organizations, and governments need to consider the cost-effectiveness of many new health care technologies. In particular, they need to think about how best to ration health care. Ubel believes that standard medical training should provide physicians with the expertise to decide when to withhold health care from patients. He discusses the moral questions raised by this position, and by health care rationing in general. He incorporates ethical arguments about the appropriate role of cost-effectiveness analysis in health care rationing, empirical research about how the general public wants to ration care, and clinical insights based on his practice of general internal medicine. Straddling the fields of ethics, economics, research psychology, and clinical medicine, he moves the debate forward from whether to ration to how to ration. The discussion is enlivened by actual case studies.
Author : A. Mitchell Polinsky
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080554245
Total Pages : 887 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Law and Economics written by A. Mitchell Polinsky and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-11-07 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law can be viewed as a body of rules and legal sanctions that channel behavior in socially desirable directions — for example, by encouraging individuals to take proper precautions to prevent accidents or by discouraging competitors from colluding to raise prices. The incentives created by the legal system are thus a natural subject of study by economists. Moreover, given the importance of law to the welfare of societies, the economic analysis of law merits prominent treatment as a subdiscipline of economics. Our hope is that this two volume Handbook will foster the study of the legal system by economists. *The two volumes form a comprehensive and accessible survey of the current state of the field.*Chapters prepared by leading specialists of the area.*Summarizes received results as well as new developments.
Author : Francesco Parisi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191507180
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics written by Francesco Parisi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering over one-hundred topics on issues ranging from Law and Neuroeconomics to European Union Law and Economics to Feminist Theory and Law and Economics, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics is the definitive work in the field of law and economics. The book gathers together scholars and experts in law and economics to create the most inclusive and current work on law and economics. Edited by Francisco Parisi, the Handbook looks at the origins of the field of law and economics, tracks its progression and increased importance to both law and economics, and looks to the future of the field and its continued development by examining a cornucopia of fields touched by work in law and economics. The uniqueness of its breadth, depth, and convenience make the volume essential to scholars, students, and contributors in the field of law and economics.
Author : Mothakapalli Venkatappa Rajeev Gowda
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521660846
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Judgments, Decisions, and Public Policy written by Mothakapalli Venkatappa Rajeev Gowda and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behavioral decision theory draws on experimental research in cognitive psychology to provide a descriptively accurate model of human behavior. It shows that people systematically violate the normative assumptions of economic rationality by miscalculating probabilities and making choices based on one-economic criteria. Behavioral decision theory s ability to capture the complexity of human judgments and choices makes it a useful foundation for improving public policy analysis, design, and implementation. This volume showcases the research of leading scholars who are working on applications of behavioral decision theory in diverse policy settings. It is designed to give policy analysts and practitioners who are non-psychologists a clearer understanding of the complexities of human judgment and choice, and an idea of how to integrate behavioral decision theoretic insights into the policy sciences. This interdisciplinary volume should be insightful and useful wherever people s judgments and choices matter for policy formulation, acceptance, and effectiveness.
Author : John A. Hird
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801848070
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Superfund written by John A. Hird and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thorough, extensively documented, and well-written description of . . . the Superfund program and an astute appraisal of its many flaws . . . The book is a valuable contribution to the literature on Superfund policy and politics."--Policy Currents."Hir
Author : David Kernick
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1498790291
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Getting Health Economics into Practice written by David Kernick and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-08-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago medicine was straightforward. Doctors had limited therapeutic options and patients did as they were told. Today, an array of medial interventions is putting increasing pressure on limited resources, patients are questioning everything and doctors are uncertain of their role. Health economists hoped to offer important insights to aid decision making, but their technical frameworks bore little resemblance to the practical requirements of end users. Now, this book presents the concepts and insights that health economics has to offer in a way that is accessible to every healthcare decision maker. Getting Health Economics into Practice is for all those who are involved in the planning, commissioning and delivery of healthcare. It illuminates the practical value that the concepts and principles of health economics can offer decision makers at all levels. Comprehensive and extensive, it is the first such book to be edited by a clinician rather than a health economist, with contributions from an expert panel of specialists. This approach ensures it is accessible and useful in the everyday work of health professionals. It is relevant for all healthcare sectors, in particular for Primary Care Trusts, and is essential reading for managers, researchers, and especially practitioners.
Author : Jeff Round
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319282670
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)
Download or read book Care at the End of Life written by Jeff Round and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work carefully guides the reader through the methodological, policy and ethical challenges facing health economists conducting research in palliative care. It has collected the opinions of many cutting-edge researchers. Those who design and conduct economic evaluations or economics-related research in end of life populations will find this book thought provoking, instructive and informative. The provision of care to individuals with disorders associated with advancing age, such as cancer and dementia, is an increasing concern amongst policy makers and providers of health and social care. Accordingly, the burden on state and private funders in providing care to patients with these complex illnesses is of growing importance to health economists. However, answering the questions raised by the research community on end of life and palliative care health economics has received little attention. The authors shed light on many questions including: Are economic evaluation methods fit for purpose in patients at the end of life? What is the best way to measure and value health outcomes in this population? What are the appropriate societal rules to govern resource allocation for people at the end of life? Are these people more or less deserving of resources than other patients? Does age matter? How can we define a good death for the purposes of resource allocation decision making? What ethics govern research in end of life patients?
Author : Ted R. Miller
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
ISBN 13 : 9780877666301
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (663 download)
Download or read book Databook on Nonfatal Injury written by Ted R. Miller and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 1995 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Injury may be the most preventable major health care problem in the United States. It is also extremely costly, with one in eight hospital discharges and days of care relating to injury. Yet, published data on injury frequency, costs, and consequences are limited. This book is a reference volume with a correction factor for inflation updates and should, therefore, be useful for many years. The book examines selected costs of injury by body region, by body part, and by nature of injury (e.g., fracture, laceration). It estimates long-term consequences and addresses the costs of occupational injuries, consumer product injuries, intentional interpersonal injuries, motor vehicle crash injuries, and suicide. This information is for hospitals, lawyers and expert witnesses, insurers, doctors, program planners and evaluators, saftey advocates, and injured people themselves. The health care reform debate has highlighted the importance of data in monitoring and shaping national health policy. The costs and level of detail reported here should also help inform health policy discussions.
