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Workshop
Announcement
“Economic
Valuation of Health for Environmental Policy: Assessing Alternative
Approaches”
March 18-19, 2002
Protecting human health is a
primary goal of environmental policy, but improving public health requires
scarce resources and involves making choices between competing objectives.
In this context, economic evaluation of health outcomes and risks can
help policy-makers judge the relative merits of alternative actions.
Two broad approaches have been
taken in the evaluation of health outcomes and risks.
Environmental economists often evaluate policies affecting health using
cost-benefit analysis, supported by monetary valuation in terms of
willingness-to-pay. In health
economics, on the other hand, interventions are more often evaluated using
cost-effectiveness analysis in terms of quality-adjusted life-years or similar
indexes.
This workshop will compare these two approaches and
evaluate them for use in analysis of environmental policies affecting health.
The workshop is sponsored by the Department
of Economics at the University of Central
Florida, with support from the US Environmental Protection Agency, Office
of Children’s Health Protection and National
Center for Environmental Economics. Some
of the papers presented will be published in a special issue of Environmental
and Resource Economics.
The conference will be held March 18-19, 2002, in the College of Business Administration at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. A $50 registration fee covers the two-day workshop, lunch each day, refreshment breaks and parking. For more information, contact Mark Dickie (407-823-4730).