| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Valuing "lives saved" vs "life-years saved" | | Author(s) | James K Hammitt |
| Corporate Author | Harvard Center for Risk Analysis |
| Journal title | Eurohealth, vol 14, no 1, 2008 |
| Publisher | European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2008 |
| Pages | pp 34-37 |
| Source | http://www.lse.ac.uk/LSEHealth eurohealth@lse.ac.uk |
| Keywords | Death ; At risk ; Life expectancy tables ; Measurement. |
| Annotation | Theory and empirical evidence suggest that neither "value per statistical life" (VSL) nor "value per statistical life years" (VSLY) is constant over an individual's life. Accurate valuation requires using values that depend on characteristics of the affected individual. This article was first published in Risk in Perspective, vol 16, no 1, March 2008, by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. It describes how the value of any intervention that alters mortality risk can be expressed using either lives saved or life years saved and the appropriate VSL or VSLY. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080728201 A |
| Classmark | CW: CA3: S7: 3R |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|