Putting a monetary value on an individual life raises ethical, philosophical, and cultural challenges. Governments, regulators, insurance companies and other industries regularly undertake calculations that assign a monetary value to lives to inform economic and policy decisions.
One of these metrics, the Value of a Prevented Fatality (VPF), can help the
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