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Abstract

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the e§ect of a non-fatal road crash on the health-related quality of life of injured people. A new approach based on the cardinalization of categorical Self-Assessed Health valuations, is suggested. Health losses have been estimated by using di§erent Time Trade-o§ and Visual Analogue Scale tari§s, in order to assess the robustness of the results. The methodology is based on the existing literature about treatment e§ects. Our main contribution focuses on evaluating the loss of health up to one year after the non-fatal accident, for those who are non-institutionalized, which aids the appropriate estimation of the aggregated health losses in quality-of-life terms.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This is the accepted version of the following article: Cubí-Mollá, P. and Herrero, C. (2012), Quality of life lost due to non-fatal road traffic injuries. Health Econ., 21: 528–550., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.1729
Publisher Keywords:	health-related quality of life; health measurement; road crashes;scaling methods
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Departments:	School of Policy & Global Affairs > Economics
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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