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net society costs and benefits associated with an extended use of canteen takeaway meals as a health promotion strategy …. The results show that employees have a positive willingness to pay for health attributes in canteen takeaway meals, but … with a minority having a highly negative willingness to pay for the canteen takeaway concept. The potential health effects …
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We examine the net benefits of social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the United States. Social distancing saves lives but imposes large costs on society due to reduced economic activity. We use epidemiological and economic forecasting to perform a rapid benefit-cost analysis of...
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overconsumption of food and analysis of the economic policy reforms designed to improve health. <p> Paper [I] estimates a hedonic … for food characteristics associated with health. A trade-off exists between health and taste. For instance, sugar, salt … implicit price for sugar is negative, consumers value health over its taste. Our results are the marginal implicit price for …
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This paper enriches existing valuation literature in a number of ways by presenting context-specific estimates of immaterial damage. First, it offers an estimation of value of statistical life (VOSL) in the context of a natural hazard (flooding). Next, as one of the contributions, alongside with...
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This paper enriches existing valuation literature in a number of ways by presenting context-specific estimates of immaterial damage. First, it offers an estimation of value of statistical life (VOSL) in the context of a natural hazard (flooding). Next, as one of the contributions, alongside with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256324
This paper proposes a method to evaluate health technologies in a given therapeutic area. The key concept is a social … health index which measures the performance of the health system. It considers both the level and the distribution of health … in the population. If improvements in the social health index are valued with a social willingness to pay, it is possible …
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Decisions on investing in health as well as other policies require deciding how to best allocate available resources … benefit-cost analysis is its emphasis on explicitly accounting for all significant outcomes (both health and non-health) and …
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Increased pollution leads to a constant decrease of drinking water quality worldwide. Due to safety concerns, unpleasant taste and odour only about 3% of the population in South Korea is drinking untreated tap water. The present study uses choice experiments and cost-benefit analysis to...
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interventions to reduce the health losses due to the HIV epidemic in hyperendemic countries from 2015 through 2030: 1) increasing … male medical circumcision among HIV-negative men are both highly cost-beneficial interventions to reduce the health burdens …
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The standard literature on the value of life relies on Yaari’s (1965) model, which includes an implicit assumption of risk neutrality with respect to life duration. To overpass this limitation, we extend the theory to a simple variety of preferences which are not necessarily additively...
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