Citation

Crampton E, Burgess M, Taylor B. N. Zeal. Med. J. 2012; 125(1360): 66-73.

Affiliation

Department of Economics, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand. eric.crampton@canterbury.ac.nz.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, New Zealand Medical Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

22932656

Abstract

Studies based on a cost of illness method frequently assert large social costs from a variety of risky activities, the harms from which most typically fall upon the risk-taker himself. Many of these costs are inadmissible in a standard economic framework; consequently, figures derived by the cost of illness method are not comparable with other economic notions of cost and are of very limited policy use.

Language: en