Evaluating Health Risks - An Economic Approach

Klappentext This book presents the techniques for evaluating changes in health and asks whether we are willing to pay the costs for our health care system. Zusammenfassung This is the first book to present a comprehensive survey of the techniques for evaluating changes in health. The author examines all the money measures that are used in such evaluations and defines their properties in both a certain and a risky world. He asks the important question of whether we are willing to pay the costs for our health care system. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Some basic tools and concepts; 3. Evaluating health changes in a certain world; 4. Money measures in a risky world; 5. Evaluating health risks: practical methodologies; 6. Contingent valuation studies of health care; 7. Aggregation; 8. Further evaluation issues in a risky world; 9. Concluding remarks on related approaches.

Product details

• Authors: Per-Olov Johansson, Per-Olov (Stockholm School of Economics Johansson, Johansson Per-Olov
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.1995
• EAN: 9780521472852
• ISBN: 978-0-521-47285-2
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Service, Microeconomics, Hospitality and service industries, Retail and wholesale industries, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General