Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new well-being valuation method. Yet there is no clear consensus on what the best measure of individual's experience may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are compared across different well-being measures wit...

This paper provides a complete program for the valuation of aggregate non-life insurance liability cash flows based on claims triangle data. The valuation is fully consistent with the principle of valuation by considering the costs associated with a transfer of the liability to a so-called reference undertaking subject to capital requirements throughout the runoff of the liability cash flow. Th...

This paper considers the process of valuation of health states and provides a categorisation of potential influences on responses. The paper demonstrates that responses are likely to be sensitive to a wide range of influences, many of which represent sources of bias. An area where further work is required concerns the appropriateness and importance of including, within the valuation, preference...

Valuation networks have been proposed as graphical representations of valuation-based systems (VBSs). The VBS framework is able to capture many uncertainty calculi including probability theory, Dempster-Shafer’s belief-function theory, Spohn’s epistemic belief theory, and Zadeh’s possibility theory. In this paper, we show how valuation networks encode conditional independence relations. For the...

The main research purpose of the present study was to test for any differences in the valuation of morbidity and mortality risk reductions across two contexts; traffic and health. A contingent valuation study on preferences for morbidity and mortality risk was carried out in Denmark in 2007. Respondents were randomised into two different arms: one arm in which the valuation took place in the co...

The sustainable management of urban greenery consists, among others, the inventory, valuation, and protection trees monumental size. This article presents results inspection 13 large growing in city Sandomierz, located south-eastern Poland. examined specimens belong to five species: Norway maple (Acer platanoides L.), common ash (Fraxinus excelsior white poplar (Populus alba English oak (Quercu...