Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Health Interventions

ISBN-13: 9780128128855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 400 str.

Carla Guerriero

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.