Evaluating Health Risks: An Economic Approach - Couverture souple

Johansson, Per-Olov

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521478782 ISBN 13 : 9780521478786

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A major problem in health economics is how to give a value to changes in health. This is the first book to examine all the money measures that are used in such evaluations. Changes in health might be caused by medical treatments, by public safety programmes and by anti-pollution programmes, and the cost-benefit analysis of such programmes involves the use of money measures. The author defines the properties of these money measures, examining them in both a certain and a risky world. He evaluates available empirical approaches for the assessment of the value of health changes, and considers measures such as quality-adjusted life years (qalys) and healthy-years equivalents (hyes). This book raises the important question of whether we are willing to pay the costs for our health care system. It will be of interest to advanced students of health economics and related disciplines, and will also be useful for professionals working on projects that affect human health.

Revue de presse

"This concise and carefully written book adresses what is becomming an increasingly important issue in several field os economics." Wesley A. Magat, Journal of Economic Literature

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521478782
• ISBN 13: 9780521478786
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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