We use stated-preference methods to estimate the cancer Value per Statistical Life (VSL) and Value per Statistical Case (VSCC) from a representative sample of 45-60-year olds in four countries in Europe. We ask respondents to report information about their willingness to pay for health risk...

Los años de vida ajustados por calidad - AVAC o QALY (en su sigla en inglés) - son una medida de resultados en salud que permite hacer comparaciones entre tratamientos con el fin de facilitar escogencias. A partir del desarrollo histórico de esta noción, se presenta su fundamento en las...

The magnitude of the value of a statistical life (VSL) is critical to the evaluation of many health and safety initiatives. To date, the large and rigorous VSL research literature has not explicitly accommodated publication selectivity bias (i.e., the reduced probability that insignificant or...

Through an estimation of an implicit point system, we try to infer some of the principles used by a medical team in the allocation of kidneys for transplantation in Mexico. Results indicate that criteria linked to principles of medical efficiency and of position in the waiting list fundamentally...

Climate change scenarios predict an increase of extreme rain events, which will increase the risk of wastewater flooding and of missing legal water quality targets. This study elicits the willingness to pay to reduce ecological and health risks from combined sewer overflows in rivers and lakes,...

Economic evaluations of health care can help to make better medical decisions. Decisions about life and death. Our current methods are wrong. Reality is different from what we did believe. Policy decisions based on our current tools are not at all in the best interests of patients. We,...

The choice experiment method was applied to determine parent’s preferences and monetary values of risk reductions on three related health issues in school, lead contamination in school drinking water, diarrhea from food contamination, and accident from outdoor playground. Data were obtained...