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Weighting: decision tree for human health

area of protection

human health

a) morbidity b) cancer c) mortality

monetize with monetize with
monetize with damage costs?
damage costs? damage costs?
no no no
yes yes
yes
monetize with monetize with monetize with
$ abatement costs? $ abatement costs? $ abatement costs?
no no
yes no yes
yes
$ use DALY monetize
(WHO)? use DALY
$ use DALY with of YOLL (WHO)?
no (WHO)? or VSL?
yes
no VSL no
yes YOLL yes
phys. impact
parameters
DALY
(restrictive DALY use YOLL? $ $ DALY use YOLL?
activity days, etc.)
no
yes no
yes
phys. phys.
impact impact
YOLL parameters YOLL parameters
(cases of (cases of
cancer) death)

FIGURE 6.8 Decision tree for weighting for the AoP of human health.

— in the case of manmade environment, for example, in maintenance surface for
paint (m ) and yield loss of wheat (t) or for the natural environment in the REW in
2
2
(km ) as described in a previous chapter.
For all the damages to human health, the first questions concern the same
decisions as for the other AoPs: whether to choose monetization and, if so, mone-
tization by damage or external environmental costs, abatement costs or internal
environmental costs. In the case of fatal effects, it must also be decided if the
monetization of the damages should be done based on years of lost life (YOLL) or

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