The Economic Valuation of Health Impacts
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• To compare benefits and costs. Although we would like to live in a world with perfectly clean air and water, the costs of reaching this goal is beyond most countries. This means comparing the expected benefits of competing investments with the costs of each. Economic analysis, in the form of either benefit-cost analysis or, where benefits cannot be measured (or are not measured), the use of cost-effectiveness analysis, allows one to compare the benefits and costs of alternative projects and programmes.
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