health impacts from air pollution in Tianjin. Although China has made dramatic economic progress in recent years, air … pollution continues to be the most visible environmental problem and imposes significant health and economic costs on society …. Using data on pollutant concentrations and population, the study estimates the economic costs of health-related effects due …

The value-of-statistical-life (VSL) approach is used by environmental economists to value mortality changes resulting … willingness-to-pay for reduction in mortality linked to air pollution in Santiago, Chile. We find willingness-to-pay estimates in …

once every 6 days. Time-series studies conducted in these cities that investigate the relationship between mortality and PM … suggests that the effects of PM on mortality are spread over multiple days. And studies have shown that using a single day’s PM … model for estimating the mortality effects of PM when only every-sixth-day PM data are available. This new model uses …

Der Tod macht alle Menschen gleich, dennoch sind nicht alle gleichmäßig betroffen. Unterschiede in der Sterblichkeit …. Eine Analyse der allgemeinen Sterblichkeit von Deutschen Bürgern im Alter von 20 bis 49 im Jahre 2004 wurde durchgeführt … die Sterblichkeit in Deutschland stärker einem Nord\Ost-Sued\West-Trend als einem einem Ost-West-Trend. Das Pro …

of air pollution on health and mortality. There is also some evidence that air ... …

-income economies in general, mortality tends to evolve better in recessions than in expansions. It has been suggested that Sweden may … be an exception to this pattern. The present investigation shows, however, that in the period 1968–2003 mortality … pattern is evidenced by the oscillations of life expectancy, total mortality, and age- and sex-specific mortality rates at the …

Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Data on disease-specific child mortality were from the World Health Organization. Data on the …Context The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set targets related to important global poverty, health … child mortality as a result of interventions related to the environmental and nutritional MDGs (improving child nutrition …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …