Economic evaluation of health-related effects of the improvement of working conditions
Izmerov, N.F.; Tkachev, V.V.; Voĭtinskiĭ, A.S.
Gigiena Truda i Professional'nye Zabolevaniya (1): 1-7
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-9919 PMID: 2109725 Document Number: 355335
The importance of financial resources input into health improving goes without saying, and economic analysis can only contribute to the search and allocation of funds. The specific economic loss (SEL) seems to be a most informative index of the damage caused to economy by occupational diseases. This index includes the total sum of economic damage of the society through all the life of the worker after an occupational disease was diagnosed. The limits of SEL vary from 6.8 to 30 thousand roubles. A further elaboration of technical and legislative bases is needed to define the economic responsibility of enterprises for violating hygienic norms and regulations.