The economic burden of NAFLD would be even higher when
including societal costs and indirect costs.
Not exact matches
According to an analysis of 2010 data by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, the price tag was $ 669 million in direct hospital
costs for just that year and $ 174 billion in larger
societal costs, which
includes disability, effects on employment, and other longer - term factors.
Reflecting the major
societal implications, the new study estimated total annual
costs —
including medical
costs, work losses and quality of life losses — associated with non-fatal and fatal bicycle injuries to adults.
Societal costs of untreated STIs
include the price of hospitalization and treatment down the road and a loss of productivity at work or in school for patients whose STIs lead to more serious medical conditions.
«A carbon price would make the price of oil better reflect its true
societal costs (
including global warming impacts, health
cost due to air pollution, as well as other environmental
costs).
This report emphasized the relevance of substance use outcomes to
societal costs,
including the associated increased criminal activity, need for health services, and future loss of productivity.
Other uncertainties
include how much effort and resources will be put into improving the adaptive capacity of public health systems to prepare in advance for the health effects of climate change, prevent harm to individual and community health, and limit associated health burdens and
societal costs.
The long - term objective of climate change policy should be to reduce the risks of serious harm to humanity and ecosystems at minimum
societal cost, while recognizing additional shared humanitarian necessities,
including providing reliable and affordable energy to improve global living standards.
Including the larger SCAR valuation would make the economics even more favorable from the perspective of a social planner considering broad
societal costs.
Climate impact concerns
include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies),
societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g.,
costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).
The vehicle has the potential to provide significant
societal benefits,
including reduced fuel consumption, job creation and lifting people out of poverty by providing low -
cost transportation that will allow people to get to jobs.
This report emphasized the relevance of substance use outcomes to
societal costs,
including the associated increased criminal activity, need for health services, and future loss of productivity.