Estimating and Valuing Morbidity in a Policy Context: Proceedings of June 1989 AERE (Association of Environmental and Resource Economists) Workshop. Held in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina on June 8-9, 1989

摘要

Eleven papers were prepared for distribution prior to the June 1989 AERE Workshop, held in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, on the topics of how to estimate changes in morbidity and how to assign values to the estimated changes in morbidity. The papers on estimating health effects range from comparing animal studies to epidemiological studies, to specific applications with respect to air pollution and skin cancer from sunlight. The valuation papers range from conceptual examinations of alternative methodologies to practical application of cost-of-illness and willingness-to-pay approaches.