Admissible utility functions for health, longevity, and wealth: integrating monetary and life-year measures

Abstract The value of reducing health and mortality risks is often measured using value per statistical life (VSL) or one of several life-year measures (e.g., life years, quality-adjusted life years, disability-adjusted life years). I derive the utility function that is admissible when preferences f...
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Hammitt, James K. [verfasserIn]

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E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2013

Schlagwörter:

Value per statistical life

Value per statistical life year

Quality-adjusted life year

Disability-adjusted life year

Healthy years equivalent

Willingness to pay

Risk aversion

Übergeordnetes Werk:

Enthalten in: Journal of risk and uncertainty - Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V, 1988, 47(2013), 3 vom: 12. Nov., Seite 311-325

Übergeordnetes Werk:

volume:47 ; year:2013 ; number:3 ; day:12 ; month:11 ; pages:311-325

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DOI / URN:

10.1007/s11166-013-9178-4

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SPR017397677

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