TY - BOOK ID - 8361109 TI - Economic valuation of environmental health risks to children. PY - 2006 SN - 1280606649 9786610606641 9264013989 9264013970 PB - Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, DB - UniCat KW - Environmental health -- Economic aspects. KW - Environmental risk assessment -- Economic aspects. KW - Environmental risk assessment. KW - Environmentally induced diseases in children -- Economic aspects. KW - Environmentally induced diseases in children. KW - Health risk assessment -- Economic aspects. KW - Risk assessment -- Economic aspects. KW - Environmentally induced diseases in children KW - Environmental health KW - Health Occupations KW - Environmental Pollution KW - Age Groups KW - Disorders of Environmental Origin KW - Hypersensitivity KW - Persons KW - Immune System Diseases KW - Public Health KW - Disciplines and Occupations KW - Diseases KW - Environment and Public Health KW - Named Groups KW - Health Care KW - Environmental Illness KW - Environmental Exposure KW - Child KW - Environmental Health KW - Medicine KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Pediatrics KW - Economic aspects KW - Economic aspects. KW - Environmental quality KW - Health KW - Health ecology KW - Health aspects KW - Environmental aspects KW - Public health KW - Environmental engineering KW - Health risk assessment KW - Children KW - 2. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8361109 AB - The relationship between environment and children’s health has been the subject of increasing interest these last ten years. For example, many OECD member countries are reporting asthma epidemics exacerbated by air pollution: in the United States nearly 1 in 13 school-age children (approximately 4.8 million) has asthma, and the rate is increasing more rapidly in school-age children than in any other group. The importance of this issue has resulted in a growing number of epidemiological studies aiming at better understanding and better characterising the relationship between environmental pollution and the health of children. However, in many respects, the valuation of children’s health strongly differs from the valuation of adults’ health and constitutes a real challenge for analysts as well as for decision-makers. Consequently, this book proposes an in depth analysis of the main methodological difficulties associated with estimating the social value of a reduction in risk to children. Questions such as how to elicit children’s preferences, what valuation methodology and benefit measure to choose, how to discount benefits to children’s health, and how to account for economic uncertainties in this specific context of economic valuation will be systematically examined in order to define key policy implications and to pave the way for further research. ER -