Download or read book Evaluating Health Risks written by Per-Olov Johansson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major problem in health economics is how to give a value to changes in health. This is the first book to present a comprehensive survey of the money measures that are used in such evaluations. The author defines the properties of these money measures, examining them in both a certain and a risky world. He evaluates available empirical approaches for the assessment of the value of health changes, and considers measures such as quality-adjusted life years (QALYS) and health-years equivalents (HYES).