Sentences with phrase «economic burden»

This makes it possible to shift the considerable economic burden of a serious accident away from the victims and onto the shoulders of the person who is responsible for the accident.

The total annual economic burden on households was $ 3.8 USD.

The health and economic burdens from preventable hazards associated with the home are considerable, and cost billions of dollars.

It creates an immediate economic burden for individuals but not for the overall economy.

I believe that middle and working class families form the backbone of our community, and that we have been carrying more than our fair share of economic burdens in recent years.

Maybe you lost a loved one in a fatal accident and are struggling to make ends meet, given the considerable economic burden associated with your tragedy.

But as usual Death seems to have blocked humanity in this time with large economic burdens and constant war over lands that are trivial to begin with.

Despite these diverse challenges, we have a singular goal for each program: developing diagnostics, drugs and vaccines that save lives, improve health and relieve economic burdens.

The price of an allowance is under $ 2, hardly a massive economic burden on either electric utilities or electricity users.

Despite increased investment in its recognition and treatment, depression remains a substantial health and economic burden worldwide.

The initiative represents a bold new vision for addressing the nation's health and economic burdens caused by preventable hazards associated with the home.

The debilitating effect of the bites and the diseases the bats spread are a major economic burden.

Industry groups, however, expressed concern that the proposed regulations are not needed to protect public health and welfare and that they will impose undue economic burdens.

We can all think of potential economic burdens in our retirement years, but few of us would think of student loans as one of them.

Any unnecessary rush to implement the new standards could risk the gains made over the past several years and impose needless economic burdens on states and industry.

This is of course far from the truth with legal aid practitioners working at rates and returns which place substantial economic burden on them to maintain practice.

According to the ADA, the shared economic burden is about $ 700 per person, annually.

In the health - care case, it immediately became clear that with freedom comes a heavy political and economic burden of choosing.

Individuals with antisocial behavior place a great physical and economic burden on society.

Smoking already disproportionately affects the lowest earners — it is the single biggest cause of health inequalities in the UK and these figures also highlight the significant economic burden tobacco places on society.

A 2016 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total economic burden of prescription opioid and heroin abuse nationwide is $ 78.5 billion annually, with a quarter of that amount paid by government programs funded by the taxpayer.

«Smoking imposes a heavy economic burden throughout the world, particularly in Europe and North America where the tobacco epidemic is most advanced,» they conclude.

«Efforts to reduce severity of illness among water recreators should be explored to reduce total economic burden while encouraging more individuals to enjoy safe surface water recreation.»

«Democrats will not help pass laws that shift more economic burdens onto hardworking American families,» said House Appropriations Committee ranking member Nita Lowey (D - N.Y.) in a statement.

The research suggests that the improvement in health may be linked to greater access to and use of health services by children whose families received Medicaid, and a decreased economic burden on families from medical expenses and debt.

In the final part of the study, the researchers used those cost findings, along with the results of the Madurai analysis, to estimate the total annual economic burden of dengue in India.

The negative effects of harassment go well beyond economic burdens to encompass harms to dignity and self - worth and reinforcement of the perception that some among us are less deserving of respect.

Impaired child development increases economic burdens for society.

Catastrophic injuries and fatalities carry an even greater economic burden.

The health problems associated with sugar consumption contribute significantly to economic burden through increased healthcare costs, estimated in 2015 to be $ 4 trillion in the U.S. alone.

The global economic burden of vaccines stands at around $ 4bn per year.

The Huffington Post reported that despite tough economic times and tightened household budgets, families must invest in life insurance to prevent further economic burden on surviving loved ones in the event of a death.

By treating sooner and more aggressively, U.S. physicians may actually save money by reducing the overall economic burden of cardiovascular disease associated with hypertension, the authors suggest.

While incoming House Speaker John Boehner thinks he's saving millions of dollars with this move, the fact is the GOP's climate science denial could cost the U.S. economy billions, perhaps trillions, in lost opportunities to lead the clean energy future and in growing economic burdens created by climate disruption.

Each dropout imposes an estimated economic burden of $ 258,240, and a social burden of $ 755,900 over the course of his or her lifetime.

An overwhelming U.S. military victory may create more problems in the Middle Last than it can solve, such as an unlimited U.S. military presence, more intractable Israeli - Palestinian hostilities, intensified Arab anti-Americanism, masse's of refugees, Syrian and Iranian ascendancy, immense economic burden and unending terrorism.

Tinnitus thus has negative social consequences for the sufferers, while being an important economic burden to society.

«Staggering economic burden of dementia in younger people, study reveals: First - of - its - kind study on frontotemporal degeneration.»

They estimated the total lifetime economic burden of child sexual abuse in the United States to be $ 9.3 billion, based on child sexual abuse data from 2015.

The authors conclude, «Unvalidated guidelines to prevent neuroimaging in patients with headaches may reduce the perceived global economic burden at the expense of medical errors, delayed diagnoses, and inferior outcomes for patients with brain tumor.»

«We found that many of those preventable deaths are in lower socioeconomic status communities, and cancer puts a huge economic burden on those communities.»

«As of today, the United States will cease all implementation of the nonbinding Paris accord and the draconian financial and economic burdens [it] imposes on our country.»

«These estimates show the vast economic burden that diabetes places on sub-Saharan Africa, and should motivate policy makers to increase resources and efforts to overcome this looming health challenge,» says one of the three lead authors, Professor Rifat Atun, Harvard University, USA.

In recent years, over 3 % of births per year in developed countries have corresponded to children conceived through assisted reproduction techniques, which poses a considerable economic burden apart from physical and psychological problems.

In the next 50 years, the world's population aged 60 and over will more than triple from 600 million to 2 billion and carries the risk of significant social and economic burden if healthy aging can not be maintained.