Your money or your life: A prescriptive model for health, safety, and consumption decisions

Management Science

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1309-1325

  Smith, James E ^a   Keeney, Ralph L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption health and safety decisions; Decision analysis; QALYs; Time preference; Value tradeoffs; Valuing health outcomes

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL GAINS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED-LIFE-YEAR (QALY);

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HEALTH;

EID: 25844487228     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1050.0402     Document Type: Article

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