The Productivity Dilemma in Workplace Health Promotion

Table 3

The value of a life.

Period	Description	US $ value	Source
Annual or per event	Average investment in WHP	$144	Baker et al. 2008 [5]
	Occupational value of a statistical life year	$1,700.000	Moore and Viscusi 1990 [39]
	Implicit value of a statistical injury	$155,453; (nonsmoker-seat belt users); $83,186; (smoker-non-seat belt users)	Hersch and Pickton 1995 [40]
	Quality of life, one year (medical expenditure)	$129,000–$488,000	Lee et al. 2009 [41]
Lifetime value of a statistical life	EPA valuation	$7,400,000	NCEE, 2006
	Prime working age	$7,000,000	Viscusi and Aldy 2003 [42]

National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/pages/MortalityRiskValuation.html#howvalueVMR.