Joint Session 7 Economic Impacts of Extremes

Wednesday, 9 January 2019: 3:00 PM-4:00 PM
North 228AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Environment and Health; and the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )
Chair:
Shubhayu Saha, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Climate and Health Program, Chamblee, GA

This session invites presentations on the economic valuation and assessment of the impact of weather and climate extremes on health as well as cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions to reduce said impacts. We invite presentations that consider the cost to healthcare systems of extremes, health insurance considerations associated with extremes, analyses of avoided costs (damage costs avoided), quantification of human health costs, and other health economics associated with weather and climate such as Value of Information (VoI) studies.

Papers:
3:00 PM
J7.1
The Health Costs of Wisconsin’s 2012 Heat Wave
Vijay Limaye, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, NY; and W. Max, J. Constible, and K. Knowlton
3:15 PM
J7.2
Degrees to Dollars: Health Costs Associated with Suboptimal Ambient Temperature Exposure
Yang Liu, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN; and S. Saha, B. Hoppe, and M. Convertino

3:30 PM
J7.3
Assessing Mortality Risk from Forecast Flood Events in a Middle Income Country: The Case of Barbados
James E. Neumann, Industrial Economics, Inc., Cambridge, MA; and J. Willwerth and D. Williamson
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