Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Health Interventions

by Carla Guerriero (Editor)

Overview

Cost-benefit Analysis of Environmental Health Interventions clearly articulates the core principles and fundamental methodologies underpinning the modern economic assessment of environmental intervention on human health. Taking a practical approach, the book provides a step-by-step approach to assigning a monetary value to the health benefits and disbenefits arising from interventions, using environmental information and epidemiological evidence. It summarizes environmental risk factors and explores how to interpret and understand epidemiological data using concentration-response, exposure-response or dose-response techniques, explaining the environmental interventions available for each environmental risk factor. It evaluates in detail two of the most challenging stages of Cost-Benefit Analysis in ‘discounting’ and ‘accounting for uncertainty’. Further chapters describe how to analyze and critique results, evaluate potential alternatives to Cost-Benefit Analysis, and on how to engage with stakeholders to communicate the results of Cost-Benefit Analysis. The book includes a detailed case study how to conduct a Cost-Benefit Analysis. It is supported by an online website providing solution files and detailing the design of models using Excel.

• Provides a clear understanding of the core theory of cost-benefit analysis in environmental health interventions
• Provides practical guidance using real-world case studies to motivate and expand understanding
• Describes the challenging ‘discounting’ and ‘accounting for uncertainty’ problems at chapter length
• Supported by a practical case study, online solution files, and a practical guide to the design of CBA models using Excel

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128129364
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	11/29/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	310
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Carla Guerriero is Research Fellow at the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Naples Federico II and honorary Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Since 2009, her research and teaching focuses on the methodology and the application of Cost-Benefit Analysis to Environmental Health Interventions and on the development of novel techniques to value children’s health. Carla has published her research in national and international research journals including PLoS One, The European Journal of Health Economics and Environmental Health. Carla conducted the first cost-benefit analysis of remediating polluted sites. She is currently responsible for the test and the design of the Cost-Benefit Analysis tool in the LIFE+ Gioconda Project.

Table of Contents

1. The key steps in cost-benefit analysis of environmental health interventions
2. Environmental health interventions for the treatment of waters, solids, and soils
3. Health impact assessment: quantifying the health benefits and costs
4. Monetary analysis of health outcomes
5. Health benefit analysis: monetization of health impacts and its use in environment and health
6. Costing environmental health intervention
7. Discounting benefits and costs
8. Quantifying uncertainty in environmental health models
9. Alternatives to cost-benefit analysis for economic evaluation
10. Climate change and ecological public health: an integrated framework
11. Case study: a realistic contaminated site remediation and different scenarios of intervention
12. Conclusion

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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Health Interventions is a practical guide for health economists and related professionals interested in assessing the economic impact of environmental influences on human health.