, morbidities and mortality in India. We draw upon the surveillance experience of four selected States of India namely Uttar Pradesh …

mortality have a similar spatial distribution. Preliminary evidence confirms the hypothesis and suggests a positive association … of ambient PM on excess mortality in Northern Italy. …

the effect of context on the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL), an important input into the calculation of the mortality … benefits of environmental policies that reduce premature mortality. We define “context” broadly to include i) the cause of … adults, and that apply a cancer premium. -- VSL ; Conjoint Choice Experiments ; Mortality Risk Reductions ; Cost …

and Cairns, and hence to much larger estimates of the reduced mortality benefits of remediating the hazardous waste in the … Naples and Caserta areas. We also examine the importance of the discount rates, since the mortality benefits of remediation … ; Hazardous Waste Sites ; Contaminated Sites ; Cancer ; Mortality Benefits ; Cost-Benefit Analysis …

; Mortality Risk Reductions ; Cost-benefit Analysis ; Forced Choice Questions …

premature mortality. In India, 66 percent of all deaths are premature. The burden of premature mortality has shifted from child …-à-vis the former level. Nevertheless, primary health systems continue to focus almost exclusively on child mortality. They need … to make a health system transition and get engaged in the prevention of risk factors, morbidity and mortality related to …

results. First, we show that the COVID-19 mortality age gap is not explained by younger susceptible populations in developing … COVID-19 spread such as residential crowding and labor informality are correlated with younger mortality age profiles across …

respondents. We examine how homeowners in the United Kingdom and Italy value mortality risk reductions by asking them to choose … among hypothetical variants of their home that differ in terms of mortality risks from air pollution and price. To our …

in the first place). The product of these two probabilities is the unconditional cancer mortality risk. Our hypothetical … cancer mortality risk when answering the valuation questions. We estimate the cancer VSL to be between € 1.9 and 5.7 million …, depending on whether the (unconditional) mortality risk was reduced by lowering the chance of getting cancer, increasing the …