Costs of Illness
Food safety risk management will often require an estimate of the costs associated with foodborne illnesses. These estimates often require data that are not readily available. The use of proxy datasets, a sort of "costs transfer" notion, may often be the best one can do in the near term. In this section we offer some links to sites that may be helpful to economists trying to estimate the costs of illness.
A few articles and reports are listed. There are numerous links to health care and related cost data that may be useful to a clever economist. A few links to large social survey datasets are also provided because, they too, may be of use.
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Institute for Social Research |
Archives of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Website for accessing the holdings of the ICPSR. Includes link to a database of studies held by ICPSR, searchable by (more) |
Aug 31, 2001 |
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Kuchler, Fred, and Elise Golan |
Assigning Values to Life: Comparing Methods for Valuing Health Risks
This report discusses approaches economists and health policy analysts use for evaluating policy that affects health (more) Publication Month: December 1999 |
Jul 10, 2002 |
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Buzby,Jean C.; Roberts, Tanya; Lin, C.T. Jordan; MacDonald, James M. |
Bacterial Foodborne Disease: Medical Costs and Productivity Losses
Paper on the economic consequences of bacterial foodborne disease in the US. Publication Month: August 1996 |
Aug 31, 2001 |
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Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
Briefing Room: Economics of Foodborne Disease
This page provides an overview of costs associated with foodborne disease as well as links to publications, data, and (more) |
Jul 10, 2002 |
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BT Safety LLC |
BT Safety LLC: Building Technologies for Safety
Company that builds software systems and predictive modeling tools to facilitate rapid and effective response to food (more) |
May 19, 2005 |
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Lieberman, Joseph I. |
Bush Administration Policy Shows No Respect for Seniors: Americans 70 and Over Valued Less When Calculating Benefits of Regulation: Lieberman Asks for Policy Renunciation
Release and letter by Sen. Lieberman regarding Lieberman's views on the practices of adjusting for age in calculating (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 |
Jul 2, 2003 |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
CDC Web Search
Allows you to search the CDC and National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) sites. |
Apr 26, 2002 |
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Ralston, Katherine, C. Philip Brent, Yolanda Starke, Toija Riggins, and C.T. Jordan Lin |
Consumer Food Safety Behavior: A Case Study in Hamburger Cooking and Ordering
Report on the changing attitudes of consumers towards hamburger doneness, as seen through their home preparation and (more) Publication Month: May 2002 |
Oct 7, 2002 |
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Media Centre, World Health Organization |
Cost of Diabetes
This fact sheet discusses the direct, indirect, and intangible costs of diabetes, as well as some primary and (more) Publication Month: September 2002 |
Nov 12, 2003 |
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Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Environmental Protection Agency |
Cost of Illness Handbook
On-line access to the COI Handbook, which gives estimates of the lower bound cost of medical care for a number of (more) |
Aug 31, 2001 |
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