Value of statistical life year in extreme poverty: a randomized experiment of measurement methods in rural Burkina Faso

• Main Authors: Stefan T. Trautmann (Author), Yilong Xu (Author), Christian König-Kersting (Author), Bryan N. Patenaude (Author), Guy Harling (Author), Ali Sié (Author), Till Bärnighausen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Value of a Statistical Life Year (VSLY) provides an important economic measure of an individual's trade-off between health risks and other consumption, and is a widely used policy parameter. Measuring VSLY is complex though, especially in low-income and low-literacy communit...