This paper studies life-cycle preferences over consumption and health status. We show that cost-effectiveness analysis … utility of consumption and the utility of health status, and if the utility of consumption is constant over time. We derive … the conditions under which the lifetime utility function takes this form, both under expected utility theory and under …

The value-of-statistical-life (VSL) approach is used by environmental economists to value mortality changes resulting … industrialized countries to derive a VSL prediction function for developing economies accounting for differences in risk, income … from environmental improvement, such as decreased urban air pollution. Because of scarce data, VSL estimates are not …

Der Tod macht alle Menschen gleich, dennoch sind nicht alle gleichmäßig betroffen. Unterschiede in der Sterblichkeit …. Eine Analyse der allgemeinen Sterblichkeit von Deutschen Bürgern im Alter von 20 bis 49 im Jahre 2004 wurde durchgeführt … die Sterblichkeit in Deutschland stärker einem Nord\Ost-Sued\West-Trend als einem einem Ost-West-Trend. Das Pro …

health or environmental advantages of organic production and consideration of sensory (taste) acceptance. To do this … information was provided was greater than WTP when health information was given. When sensory taste information was included …, however, the WTP estimates under the health information treatment were about twice those under the environmental information …

-income economies in general, mortality tends to evolve better in recessions than in expansions. It has been suggested that Sweden may … be an exception to this pattern. The present investigation shows, however, that in the period 1968–2003 mortality … pattern is evidenced by the oscillations of life expectancy, total mortality, and age- and sex-specific mortality rates at the …

-level comparative risk assessment modeling the mortality effects of interventions on child nutrition and environmental risk factors … Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Data on disease-specific child mortality were from the World Health Organization. Data on the …Context The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set targets related to important global poverty, health …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …