Environmental Effects on Public Health: An Economic Perspective

Kyriaki Remoundou () and Phoebe Koundouri ()

No 904, DEOS Working Papers from Athens University of Economics and Business

Abstract: In this article we critically review the economic literature on the effects of environmental changes on public health, in both the developed and the developing world. We first focus on the economic methodologies that are available for the evaluation of the effects (social costs and benefits) of environmental changes (degradation/preservation) on public health. Then, we explain how the monetary valuations of these effects can feed back in the construction of economic policy for creating agent-specific incentives for more efficient public health management, which is also equitable and environmentally sustainable. Our exposition is accompanied by a synthesis of the available quantitative empirical results.

Keywords: health risks; environmental management; valuation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-12-30
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