Economic valuation of the mortality benefits of a regulation on SO2 in 20 European cities

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ID19035162
AutoresOlivier Chanel (0000-0002-8221-7558, autor de correspondencia), Susann Henschel (IBAT College), Patrick Goodman (0000-0001-9509-131X, IBAT College), P G Goodman, Antonis Analitis, Richard Atkinson (0000-0001-8352-2207), R W Atkinson, Alain Le Tertre (0000-0001-5346-216X), Ariana Zeka (0000-0002-9570-8831), S Medina (0009-0007-5827-1320)
Año2014
Volumen24
Número4
Páginas631-637
Fecha de publicación2014-02-24
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1101-1262 • E-ISSN: 1464-360X
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/eurpub/cku018
PMID24567289
OpenAlexW2131999216
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas22

BACKGROUND: Since the 1970s, legislation has led to progress in tackling several air pollutants. We quantify the annual monetary benefits resulting from reductions in mortality from the year 2000 onwards following the implementation of three European Commission regulations to reduce the sulphur content in liquid fuels for vehicles. METHODS: We first compute premature deaths attributable to these implementations for 20 European cities in the Aphekom project by using a two-stage health impact assessment method. We then justify our choice to only consider mortality effects as short-term effects. We rely on European studies when selecting the central value of a life-year estimate (€ 2005 86 600) used to compute the monetary benefits for each of the cities. We also conduct an independent sensitivity analysis as well as an integrated uncertainty analysis that simultaneously accounts for uncertainties concerning epidemiology and economic valuation. RESULTS: The implementation of these regulations is estimated to have postponed 2212 (95% confidence interval: 772-3663) deaths per year attributable to reductions in sulphur dioxide for the 20 European cities, from the year 2000 onwards. We obtained annual mortality benefits related to the implementation of the European regulation on sulphur dioxide of € 2005 191.6 million (95% confidence interval: € 2005 66.9-€ 2005 317.2). CONCLUSION: Our approach is conservative in restricting to mortality effects and to short-term benefits only, thus only providing the lower-bound estimate. Our findings underline the health and monetary benefits to be obtained from implementing effective European policies on air pollution and ensuring compliance with them over time

Business · Economics · Air Quality and Health Impacts · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · Finance