The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK makes recommendations to the NHS on the adoption (or continuation) of therapies. This requires judgements about whether the values/weights attached to gains in quality and length of life should vary according to the...

Much of the evidence raising doubts about Expected Utility Theory (EUT) comes from experiments involving hypothetical decisions. Most of the rest of the evidence comes from experiments where respondents are asked to make a large number of decisions, knowing that only one of these will provide...

La réduction des risques environnementaux a-t-elle plus de valeur lorsqu’il s’agit d’enfants que lorsqu’il s’agit d’adultes ? Et si oui, quelles sont les conséquences pour l’action des pouvoirs publics ? Produit final du projet sur l’évaluation des impacts sur la santé liés...

Is the value of reducing environmental risk greater for children than for adults? If so, what does this mean for policy makers? This report, the final output of the Valuation of Environment-Related Health Impacts (VERHI) project, presents new research findings on these key environmental policy...