Sentences with phrase «health damage costs»

Furthermore, particulate air pollution is on the rise in cities, hitting 110 million people, causing public health damage costs in 2004 of about $ 3 billion.

A 2009 study on the negative effects of power generation by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), «The hidden costs of electricity: externalities of power generation in Australia» calculated the greenhouse impacts and health damage costs of different power generation technologies including coal, gas, wind, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, geothermal, carbon capture and storage, and nuclear energy, and determined that health costs of burning coal are equivalent to a national health burden of around $ A2.6 billion per annum.

Not exact matches

Reductions on this level would lower the total cost of national annual human health damages by US$ 20 billion to $ 50 billion annually.

Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.

In actual fact these artificial feeding products contribute to our health burdens, contribute to environmental damage, contribute to our national health costs and contribute to the coffers of an industry obsessed with prioritizing profit over the health of children and mothers.

Perinatal events can result in associated longer term health and broader societal costs, as shown by the size of damages paid in obstetric litigation cases, which represent a substantial cost to the NHS.27 Follow - up over weeks or longer to monitor recovery, or a future assessment of the outcomes for mothers and babies at a later date, would act as a vehicle for estimating costs and consequences beyond the perinatal period and shed more light on long term cost effectiveness.

In their opinion, other common products may contain noxious chemicals damaging their children's health, so natural mattress is still their choice regardless of its high cost.

«Most people in this country do drink safely and responsibly but the evidence of the damage that is caused by those who don't is plain to see; alcohol abuse still costs us # 20 billion a year in crime and damage to health.»

«As a college we are extremely worried that these reforms, if implemented in their current format, will lead to an increase in damaging competition, an increase in health inequalities, and to massively increased costs in implementing this new system.»

As well as the monetary costs in terms of NHS treatments, there are direct costs from fires, litter, costs to business from absence due to ill health and the costs of secondary damage to health from breathing tobacco smoke.

Invasive species cost us more in environmental, economic, and health - care related damages than all other natural disasters combined.

An estimated 800,000 Americans live with an ostomy, with up to 80 percent experiencing high rates of peristomal skin complications (PSCs)-- skin inflammation, injury, or damage occurring around the ostomy — that can lead to pain, reduce life satisfaction, and increase health care costs.

The costs of buying and upgrading equipment to comply with the regulations could reach $ 10 billion a year, but benefits such as improved health and reduced damage to crops should total up to $ 90 billion annually.

Today in the U.S. alone such incidents cause $ 82 million in public health costs and economic damages to fisheries and tourism annually, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Their impact ranges from upsetting native ecosystems, to damaging the physical environment and even threatening human and animal health; hence the cost to agriculture, fisheries and forestry, as well as the expense of control and eradication programmes.

Carbon pollution imposes economic costs by damaging public health and driving destructive climate change.

Before scientists and engineers can realize the dream of using stem cells to create replacements for worn out organs and battle damaged body parts, they'll have to develop ways to grow complex three - dimensional structures in large volumes and at costs that won't bankrupt health care systems.

But now, according to a recent NBC News report, these two Silicon Valley giants will cover the costs for female employees to freeze their eggs for non-medical reasons (medical reasons would include cancer or some other fertility - damaging health condition).

You're probably already aware that most people don't fix their problems and health related issues until it's nearly too late, by then the cost to reverse the damage done can vary from thousands of dollars to dangerous surgery.

But given the severity of the tobacco addiction and the likelihood of health damage, experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Cancer Society (ACS) say it's a straightforward cost - benefit decision.

Good health and safety management pays dividends, by preventing injuries and lost staff time by averting serious preventable injuries; work ‑ related illnesses such as stress and back pain; lost work days due to work - related illness and workplace injury; and the cost and disruption of damage only accidents.

The cost of these reforms are compounded by the cost to society of their failure, in increased health care, criminal justice, public assistance, loss of community, loss of local control and other damage.

Problem debt costs the UK # 8.3 bn through the damage it causes to family life, mental and physical health, productivity and employment prospects and costs to the welfare state, the NHS, local government and other agencies.

Raising a puppy on substandard quality kibble is like raising a child on MacDonald's — it might cost less but the damage caused to that child's health is not worth the pennies saved.

Dental health care, however if injury to teeth is caused by an accident, we do cover the cost of extractions of damaged teeth and of reconstruction of upper and lower canine teeth.

Compared to the cost of raising a litter, pets roaming and getting lost, getting into fights, damage to the furniture from urine - marking, or treating other health issues that result from your pet remaining intact, this one time surgery is much more affordable!

Good travel insurance will cover the cost of a cancelled flight, lost / damage / stolen property, and the most important thing — your health.

The three costumes are: Pollo Luchador — a bright yellow chicken suit that allows health to regenerate at the cost of stamina regeneration, the Skeleton costume — which grants infinite stamina, but removes all health packs from the game, and newly colored Luchador Suit — which decreases throwing damage, but boosts striking damage.

Saving them will restore some of their health at the cost of your own while sacrificing them will kill them but not before doing some serious damage to your enemies.

Upgrade qualities mostly remain the same within each respective upgrade category, although the cost of each upgrade varies for every upgrade level such as the first health upgrade improving health statistics by 8 from 160 to 168 costing 200 credits with the second upgrade having the same amount of improvement but costing 280 credits, while the first damage improvement is 5 % costing 200 credits with the second improvement being the same increase for 300 credits.

Meanwhile, Custom Fight Now has all of the previous options of Fight Now, while simultaneously introducing advanced settings including enabling or disabling perks, stamina and CPU stamina recovery, health and CPU health recovery, grapple advantage and competitive HUD, alongside adjusting stamina and CPU stamina cost, damage and CPU damage, transition and CPU transition speed and submission and CPU submission speed.

Enemy damage ratios have been cranked up significantly, and a single jump kick from your standard hoodlum will cost you a whole fifth of your health bar.

For instance, if you insert Regeneration Pressens into one of your Active Combo slots then your combo will regenerate your health, but this will be at the cost of inflicting low damage and enemies will be more difficult to deal with.

Worldwide, vegetation fires are showing a trend toward longer burning periods, increased fire severity, larger areas burned and increased (mostly human caused) frequency — with all of these factors contributing to more damaging environmental impacts, higher shares of emissions and increasing socioeconomic costs, including greater threats to human health and security.

[Response: And also factor in that reduction in hurricane damage is not the only, or even the major, benefit of GHG control, and perhaps also the fact that it's not entirely clear that a smart implementation of Kyoto would actually «cost» anything, given ancillary benefits of energy efficiency and health benefits from reduced or cleaner coal burning.

And yet another researcher began to examine the costs of petrol, or coal, or methane gas if the long - term economic damage and health costs were factored in, and concluded that these made «expensive» renewables cheap by comparison.

We know what the costs were: the lives of more than 30 000 people, most of them Iraqi civilians; cultural damages; a great increase in mistrust of, and hatred for, the West; and many millions of tax dollars that would have been much better spent on education, health and combating global warming.

He noted that the IMF recently calculated that fossil fuels benefit from subsidies of $ 5.3 tn a year, or $ 10m a minute, half of which derives from the polluters not paying the costs of health damage from air pollution.

In addition to reducing flood damages, benefits of green infrastructure include energy savings, reduced sewer costs, improved public health, spaces for recreation and environmental benefits.

For example, a tax on coal that incorporated the increased health care costs associated with mining it and breathing polluted air, the costs of damage from acid rain, and the costs of climate disruption would encourage investment in clean renewable sources of energy such as wind or solar.

Moreover, pure market forces can not counter the hidden costs of dirty fuels, such as higher health bills and environmental damage.

I hate to think of the financial, health and social damage and costs suffered by the UK during the past five worst winters for years — brought on by global warming.

For example, the environmental degradation from «acid rain» caused by high levels of Sulfur emissions, the economic impact of global warming, the health damage to humans from air and water pollution (from particulate matter and mercury), all are measurable with an economic cost to society.

But these direct cost related factors don't even begin to count in the terrible external costs of fossil fuels ranging from ramping damages due to climate change and direct health impacts by adding toxic particles to the air and water.

How many lives have been disrupted or destroyed by job loss, business closure, industry closings, cost of living increases, health damaged by stress over threat of impending doom, guilt exploited about destroying nature or killing animals, conflict with friend family friends and neighbours because they dared to suggest most environmentalist's claims were false.

Yet, as the interagency group acknowledged, this range is almost certainly an underestimate because it ignores significant, indirect costs to trade, human health, and security likely to «spill over» to the United States as other regions experience climate change damages.

The fires and associated haze also caused some $ 4.5 billion in damages from health care costs, transport disruptions, and reduced tourism.

Petroleum and coal companies are allowed to sell their products which, when consumed, cause untold trillions of dollars in costs in human health and environmental damage, and governments pay those costs in the form of medical benefits, and eventually measures to deal with the effects of global climate change.

Instead they want compensation for a wide range of past and future damages related to climate change, ranging from the cost of fighting wildfires to flood control measures, health care expenses and the loss of land value.

America watched helplessly as millions of barrels of oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico for months, costing millions of dollars in environmental and health damages, and taking the lives of 11 workers who died in the oil rig explosion.