The Cost Effectiveness of Occupational Health ...（职业健康的成本效益u2026u2026）.pdf

Lahiri S et al - The Cost Effectiveness of Occupational Health Interventions: Prevention of Silicosis This is a preprint of an article accepted for publication in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine © copyright 2005 The Cost Effectiveness of Occupational Health Interventions: Prevention of Silicosis 1 2 3 4 Supriya Lahiri, Ph.D., Charles Levenstein, Ph.D., Deborah Imel Nelson, Ph.D., Beth J. Rosenberg, Sc.D. 1Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Falmouth Hall 302D, One University Avenue, Lowell, MA 01854, 2 Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts, 3Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, U.S.A., 4 Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts Background The failure to recognize occupational health essential, particularly in developing countries where as an economic phenomenon limits the effectiveness of resources are scarce, development objectives are interventions ostensibly designed to prevent disease and paramount, and international financial agencies influential. injury. Hence, consideration of economic efficiency is All actors – management, labor, government agencies, essential in the evaluations of interventions to reduce health professionals, and advocacy organizations - need to hazardous working conditions. In this paper, we present an