QALY and health care costs-based damage cost toolkit for evaluating air quality measures

This toolkit is targeted at local authorities in the UK. It aims to generate estimates of QALY losses and health care costs (NHS and PSS) per tonne of emission of PM2.5 and NOx (or NO2) emitted, in order to support the economic evaluation of air quality measures. As a number of inputs were derived from the Leeds-Bradford Low Emission Zone (LEZ) feasibility study, the toolkit is especially appropriate for the economic evaluation of air quality measures in this region, using information on the targeted population size and the expected annual reduction in pollutant load (spread-sheet “using emission data only”). Alternatively, in order to evaluate air quality measures outside of West Yorkshire or in areas with a substantial different population density than Leeds/Bradford, it is possible to enter area-specific estimates of avoided cases of adverse health endpoints as input data of the toolkit (via spread-sheet “Using emissions and HIA results”).