Valuing Health for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

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Quero, em primeiro lugar, agradecer a participação de todos que puderam fazê-lo na reunião do dia 18 p.p. Lembrar também que combinamos, como primeira rodada do grupo, o envio de um pequeno texto com suas idéias básicas relacionadas com a proposta que motivou nosso encontro, assim como alguns conseguiram fazê-lo na reunião. Quem já o fez esperamos que reproduza neste texto sintético a idéia central do que já disse para que fique registrado e permita comentários enriquecedores dos demais.
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Valuing Health for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Wilhelmine Miller, Lisa A. Robinson, and Robert S. Lawrence, Editors, Committee to Evaluate Measures of Health Benefits for Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation
US National Academy of Sciences.ISBN: 0-309-10077-1, (2006)

Summary: http://www.nap.edu/execsumm_pdf/11534.pdf
Full report available online at: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309100771/html/

“….Promoting human health and safety by reducing exposures to risks and harms through regulatory interventions is among the most important responsibilities of the government. Such efforts encompass a wide array of activities in many different contexts: improving air and water quality; safeguarding the food supply; reducing the risk of injury on the job, in transportation, and from consumer products; and minimizing exposure to toxic chemicals.

Estimating the magnitude of the expected health and longevity benefits and reductions in mortality, morbidity, and injury risks helps policy makers decide whether particular interventions merit the expected costs associated with achieving these benefits and inform their choices among alternative strategies. Valuing Health for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis provides useful recommendations for how to measure health-related quality of- life impacts for diverse public health, safety, and environmental regulations. Public decision makers, regulatory analysts, scholars, and students in the field will find this an essential review text. It will become a standard reference for all government agencies and those consultants and contractors who support the work of regulatory programs….”

Content:

Executive Summary

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Characteristics of Major Regulations and Current Analytic Practices

Chapter 3 Measures and Strategies for Obtaining Health Benefit Values for Regulatory Analysis

Chapter 4 Beyond Ratios: Ethical and Nonquantifiable Aspects of Regulatory Decisions

Chapter 5 Recommendations for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

A Summary of Case Studies

B Health Indexes