"Benefit-cost analyses of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects are an important tool for evaluating the efficiency of … (VSL) are available for developing countries, methods for transferring estimates from high income to middle and low income …

The Global Tax Program Health Taxes Knowledge Note Series focuses on topics linked to implementation of health taxes … policy makers with an overview of relevant issues and feasible policy choices in setting health taxes based on questions that … emerge from the field during health tax reforms. This fourth brief in the series gives policy makers an overview of the …

, the authors used a 3-equation, trivariate probit framework, with health effects and misperception of pesticide risk as … used in production, while misperception of pesticide risk (the second equation) was determined by health impairments from … pesticides, overuse is potentially a threatening problem to farmer health as well as the environment. To model pesticide overuse …

Environmental health (EH) is concerned with preventing disease, death and disability by reducing exposure to adverse … taps resources inside and outside the health care system to help improve health outcomes. Environmental health risks can be … prevented or significantly mitigated, by activities in various sectors in addition to health especially infrastructure, energy …

their risk of dying in road traffic accidents in each of three scenarios that mirror the circumstances under which the … the size of the risk reduction, income, and exposure to road traffic risks, as measured by length of commute and whether … the respondent drives a two-wheeler. As a result, the "value of a statistical life" (VSL) is individuated-that is, it …

Air pollution has major health impacts on people living in Ulaanbaatar. The excessively high particulate matter …, save lives and avoid enormous health costs. The implementation of the Air Monitoring and Health Impact Baseline (AMHIB …) study has brought together Mongolian and international air quality experts as well as public health experts and economists …

"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of … health and education. One hypothesis for this variability is the resilience of the extended family network in some countries …

economic and social development. What factors contribute to the excessive mortality, ill health, and disability in Russia …The poor health status of Russia's economically active adult population-its human capital-is imperiling sustainable … projects the health and economic gains that could result from such a program. …