Methodology for Valuing the Health Impacts of Air Pollution: Discussion of Challenges and Proposed Solutions

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Methodology for Valuing the Health Impacts of Air Pollution: Discussion of Challenges and Proposed Solutions

dc.contributor.author	Narain, Urvashi
dc.contributor.author	Sall, Chris
dc.date.accessioned	2016-06-07T15:26:36Z
dc.date.available	2016-06-07T15:26:36Z
dc.date.issued	2016-06-23
dc.description.abstract	This report is meant to inform a joint publication by the World Bank and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) on the economic costs of air pollution. Air pollution is a global challenge and one that is acutely felt in developing countries. Illnesses caused by ambient and household air pollution claim the lives of nearly 6 million people each year. The goal of the joint World Bank-IHME report is to raise awareness about the severity of this challenge and to strengthen the business case for countries to take action on reducing air pollution. A secondary goal of the joint World Bank-IHME report is to further the development of a consistent framework for valuing the costs of air pollution in World Bank operations. This report serves as a background paper for the joint report and provides a detailed discussion of the key methodological choices that must be made in valuing the health impacts of pollution and makes recommendations on how these challenges can be addressed. While past efforts to value the health impacts of pollution have greatly contributed to the discussion of challenges and potential solutions, they have at the same time made a number of methodological choices on an ad hoc basis. The hope in developing this note is to bring greater clarity to what the issues are and to provide guidance on how they can be addressed consistently (the note provides clear recommendations where possible and a framing of issues where the literature or the context does not as yet provide clarity on potential solutions).	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/24440
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/24440
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	AIR POLLUTION
dc.subject	AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD AIR POLLUTION
dc.subject	HEALTH IMPACTS OF POLLUTION
dc.subject	ECONOMIC COST OF AIR POLLUTION
dc.subject	VALUE OF STATISTICAL LIFE
dc.subject	HUMAN CAPITAL LOSS
dc.subject	VALUE OF STATISTICAL LIFE YEAR
dc.title	Methodology for Valuing the Health Impacts of Air Pollution	en
dc.title.subtitle	Discussion of Challenges and Proposed Solutions	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Methodology for Valuing the Health Impacts of Air Pollution
okr.date.disclosure	2016-06-23
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Working Paper
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/K8849
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/24440
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	K8849
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okr.language.supported	en
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okr.topic	Environment::Air Quality & Clean Air
okr.topic	Environment::Brown Issues and Health
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Health Economics & Finance
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Health and Poverty
okr.unit	Envir Nat. Res. - GP (GENDR)