Modelling the health related benefits of environmental policies - a CGE analysis for the eu countries with gem-e3

APPENDIX

A.1. Computation of the health related damage

To illustrate how the health related damages in Table 1 are derived, we look at the case
of ozone (O3). From the ExternE study we know that the dose-response functions for O3
are as follows:

Table A.1: Dose-response relationship for tropospheric ozone

Source: ExternE (1996, 1998, 2000)

a The exposure response slope has units of cases∕(year-person-μg∕m³) except for mortality which
is expressed as percentage increase per μg∕m³.

The dose-response functions are converted into cases/(year-person-6h ppb) by
multiplying them by 2. The dose-response functions for morbidity are then all expressed
in cases/(year-1000persons-6h ppb) for the entire population taking into account the
receptor share in total population. The dose-response function for acute mortality is
expressed in the same units by using the assumption that the baseline mortality rate is
0.99%. The resulting exposure-response slopes are combined with the damage values
from ExternE in order to obtain the total health related marginal damage per person.

Table A.2: Derivation of the health related marginal damage - O3 concentrations

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