Societal costs of air pollution-related health hazards A review of methods and results 英文参考文献.docVIP

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation BioMedCentral Review Open Access Societal costs of air pollution-related health hazards: A review of methods and results Tanjima Pervin*1, Ulf-G Gerdtham1 and Carl Hampus Lyttkens2 Address: 1Health Economics Program (HEP), Department of Clinical Sciences, Malm?, Lund University SE-205 02 Malm?, Sweden and 2Department of Economics, Lund University, SE-220 07 Lund, Sweden Email: Tanjima Pervin* - tanjima.pervin@med.lu.se; Ulf-G Gerdtham - ulf.gerdtham@med.lu.se; Carl Hampus Lyttkens - carl.hampuslyttkens@nek.lu.se * Corresponding author Published: 11 September 2008 Received: 30 May 2007 Accepted: 11 September 2008 Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2008, 6:19 doi:10.1186/1478-7547-6-19 This article is available from: /content/6/1/19 ? 2008 Pervin et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract This paper aims to provide a critical and systematic review of the societal costs of air pollution- related ill health (CAP), to explore methodological issues that may be important when assessing or comparing CAP across countries and to suggest ways in which future CAP studies can be made more useful for policy analysis. The methodology includes a systematic search based on the major electronic databases and the websites of a number of major international organizations. Studies are categorized by origin – OECD countries or non-OECD countries – and by publication status. Seventeen studies are included, eight from OECD countries and nine from non-OECD countries. A number of studies based on the ExternE methodology and the USA studies conducted by the Institute of Transportation are also summarized and discussed separately. The present