[Monetary value of the human costs of road traffic injuries in Spain].

[Monetary value of the human costs of road traffic injuries in Spain]. Gac Sanit. 2015 Sep 2; Authors: Martínez Pérez JE, Sánchez Martínez FI, Abellán Perpiñán JM, Pinto Prades JL Abstract Cost-benefit analyses in the field of road safety compute human costs as a key component of total costs. The present article presents two studies promoted by the Directorate-General for Traffic aimed at obtaining official values for the costs associated with fatal and non-fatal traffic injuries in Spain. We combined the contingent valuation approach and the (modified) standard gamble technique in two surveys administered to large representative samples (n1=2,020, n2=2,000) of the Spanish population. The monetary value of preventing a fatality was estimated to be 1.4 million euros. Values of 219,000 and 6,100 euros were obtained for minor and severe non-fatal injuries, respectively. These figures are comparable to those observed in neighboring countries. PMID: 26342412 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Gaceta Sanitaria - Category: Global & Universal Tags: Gac Sanit Source Type: research