The economic value of fatal and non-fatal occupational risks in Mexico City using actuarial- and perceived-risk estimates

Health Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1329-1335

  Hammitt, James K ^a,c   Ibarrarían, María Eugenia ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^c HARVARD CENTER FOR RISK ANALYSIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Health risk; Hedonic wage; Value per statistical life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FATALITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; MEXICO; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33845649380     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1137     Document Type: Article

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