Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Health Interventions

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Health Interventions provides a step-by-step approach to assigning monetary values to health interventions by using environmental information and epidemiological evidence. Its authors articulate the core principles and fundamental methodologies underpinning the modern economic assessment of environmental intervention on human health. They summarize environmental risk factors and explore ways to interpret and understand epidemiological data. With concentration-response, exposure-response, and dose-response techniques, they explain the environmental interventions available for each environmental risk factor. Including extensive case studies and end of chapter exercises, Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Health Interventions is accompanied by a 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 end of chapter exercises, online solution files, and a practical guide to the design of CBA models using Excel

Graduate and PhD students / early career researchers working in Health Economics, Environmental Epidemiology and Engineering (e.g. Environmental Engineering, Transportation Engineering). Policy Makers (e.g. Health, Transport). Private Sector Operators (e.g. consultancy services). NGOs willing to perform Cost-Benefit Analysis of their interventions

1. Introduction
2. The key steps in Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Health Interventions
3. Environmental Hazards affecting Health
4. Health Benefit Analysis
5. Monetary Analysis of Health Outcomes
6. Costing Environmental Health Intervention
7. Discounting
8. Addressing Uncertainty in Cost-Benefit Analysis
9. Producing and Apprising CBA Results
10. Issues and Limitations to consider when using Cost-Benefit Analysis
11. Alternatives to Cost-Benefit Analysis for Economic Evaluation
12. Communicating Results of Cost-Benefit Analysis