Assigning Values to Life: Comparing Methods for Valuing Health Risks

[摘要] An examination of five approaches economists and health policy analysts have developed for evaluating policy affecting health and safety: cost-of-illness, willingness-to-pay, cost-effectiveness analysis, risk-risk analysis, and health-health analysis. Also examines the theoretical basis and empirical application of each approach and investigates the influence that assumptions embedded in each approach have on policy guidance.

[发布日期] 1999-12-01 [发布机构] United States Department of Agriculture

[学科分类] 农业科学（综合）

[关键词] health;safety;health policy;cost-of-illness;willingness-to-pay;cost-effectiveness analysis;risk-risk analysis;health-health analysis