Sentences with phrase «estimated economic burden»

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The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (estimates the country's debt - to - GDP ratio (a measure of public debt burden) at around 190 % this year.

In the United States, the total economic burden of major depression alone is now estimated to be $ 210.5 billion per year, according to the consulting firm the Analysis Group.

In the context of considering the NGP's economic burdens and benefits (NGP Report, Volume II, s. 2.4.4), the JRP noted that the concept of «ecological goods and services» was described during the hearing but that, based on the hearing record, the estimated costs for damages to ecosystem goods and services were not well quantified and based on a methodology that is not currently broadly accepted.

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 annual economic burden of allergic disease in the EU is already estimated at between $ 55 billion and $ 151 billion so increases on this level will bring a hefty price tag.

Lead author Dr Matthew Jones says, «Smoking during pregnancy is a major global public health issue: a conservative estimate for the annual economic burden in the UK is # 23.5 million and in the US $ 110 million.

«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.

While this study indicates that the economic and disease burdens of dengue in India are hundreds of times greater than estimates based entirely on official reports, further studies are needed to garner additional detail.

The total economic burden of migraine in the U.S., including direct medical costs and indirect costs such as lost workdays, is estimated at $ 17 billion annually.

«For the first time, our analyses provide state - specific costs for COPD, which provide state public health practitioners with estimates of the economic burden of COPD within their borders and illustrates the potential medical and absenteeism costs savings to states through implementing state level programs that are designed to prevent the onset of COPD,» says Earl Ford, MD, researcher with the Division of Population Health, CDC.

A series of economic papers released in 2015 and 2016 estimated the burden of diseases attributable to exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), also known as environmental estrogens, and associated costs in the US and EU.

A series of economic papers released in 2015 and 2016 estimating the burden of diseases and associated costs attributable to exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in the U.S. and EU are as flawed and immaterial to public health decision - making as many experts first suspected, according to a thorough and rigorous critique of the underlying methodology used to generate the cost estimates published this month in the online version of the influential, peer - reviewed journal Archives of Toxicology.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total economic burden of prescription opioid misuse alone in the United States is $ 78.5 billion a year.

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.

To the extent that an economic rationale lies behind the U.S. rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, it comes from estimates that the U.S. will bear a disproportionate share of the burden of adjustment and that the costs to the U.S. of the Kyoto Protocol far outweigh the benefits.

Since the economic burden of mental illnesses in Canada has been estimated at $ 51 - billion per year, with almost $ 20 - billion of that coming from workplace losses, the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) has launched a collaborative project with the Bureau de normalisation du Québec (BNQ) and the standards division of the Canadian Standards Association (CSA Standards) to create a voluntary national standard for mentally healthy workplaces.

PTSD is a severe psychiatric illness characterised by four core symptom clusters: re-experiencing, avoidance, negative cognition and mood and hyperarousal.1 With an estimated lifetime prevalence in community samples of up to 8 %, PTSD results in a great deal of personal suffering and escalating social and economic costs.2 Unfortunately, current evidence - based treatments for PTSD leave a high percentage with a significant symptom burden, highlighting the urgent need for novel treatments.