Measurements of individual benefits of different health and medical interventions are fundamental for prioritizing among different alternative uses of resources in the healthcare sector. While psychometric measures do not necessarily provide information sufficient for assigning relative values...

1: The Motor Vehicle and Traffic Safety Mandate -- Fatalities in Traffic Accidents—Trends and Incidence -- Early Congressional Hearings on Traffic Safety -- The Traffic Safety Acts of 1966 -- Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards -- Standards for Highway Safety Programs -- Other Safety...

This volume describes the theory and methods of economic evaluation of health care. Currently, most economic evaluations of health care programs are cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses, while in the environmental and traffic safety fields it is common to carry out instead traditional...