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value of life

economic value used to quantify the benefit of avoiding a fatality. It is also referred to as the cost of life, value of preventing a fatality (VPF), implied cost of averting a fatality (ICAF), and value of a statistical life (VSL)
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value of life

Summary

value of life ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (134 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • value of life's image is recorded as International VSL with data values.png[2].
  • value of life's subclass of is recorded as economic value[3].
  • value of life's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D026712[4].
  • value of life's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01fnpk[5].
  • value of life's MeSH tree code is recorded as K01.752.400.900[6].
  • value of life's BBC Things ID is recorded as 328ff1d2-8857-4de2-9907-5b773dafdb9d[7].
  • value of life's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0949763[8].
  • value of life's Quora topic ID is recorded as Value-of-Life[9].
  • value of life's STW Thesaurus for Economics ID is recorded as 30006-5[10].
  • value of life's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780180825[11].
  • value of life's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2909526567[12].
  • value of life's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2780180825[13].
  • value of life's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 76161[14].

Why It Matters

value of life ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (134 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . WikiUMLS: Aligning UMLS to Wikipedia via Cross-lingual Neural Ranking. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . zbw.eu. Retrieved . zbw.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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