Sentences with phrase «indirect health costs»

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One estimate of the negative environmental externalities from conventional agriculture in the United States is derived from Pimentel et al. (1993) who estimated total indirect private and external (off - farm) costs of the use of synthetic pesticides at US$ 12.1 billion annually: this included the private input costs of US$ 4 billion and US$ 5 billion in environmental and health costs.

We estimated direct health costs and the indirect costs of morbidity and premature mortality.

To obtain indirect costs for breast and ovarian cancer, we applied the ratio from the National Institutes of Health of indirect to direct costs of cancer of 0.229.39

The variable indirect cost rates would be replaced with a uniform rate of 10 % of total research costs for all NIH grants to reduce paperwork and «the risk for fraud and abuse,» states a budget document for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has suggested that eliminating these so - called indirect cost payments could shrink NIH's budget by $ 5.8 billion without reducing the level of research funded.

High blood pressure is a leading risk factor for heart attack and stroke and is also a significant public health burden, costing the United States about $ 110 billion in direct and indirect costs in 2015, according to American Heart Association estimates.

Schizophrenia is estimated to cost # 13.1 billion per year in total in the UK, so even small improvements in cognitive functions could help patients make the transition to independent living and working and could therefore substantially reduce direct and indirect costs, besides improving the wellbeing and health of patients.

As the Harvard School of Public Health reports, obesity carries many direct and indirect costs to a city.

Yes, the above are the kinds of things I am referring to: environmental costs, subsidies of many, many kinds both direct and indirect, health effects of smog, and the cost of geopolitics which has been oil driven for almost a century.

b. Fossil fuels are cheapest because: direct / indirect subsidies; human health costs not paid by fossil fuel companies; and climate disruption costs not paid by fossil fuel companies.

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.

Leading off a June 12, 2012 Senate Finance Committee hearing on energy taxation, Dr. Jorgenson proposed internalizing the health and environmental costs of fossil fuel burning by eliminating fossil fuel «tax expenditures» (i.e., indirect subsidies) and taxing emissions of the six Clean Air Act «criteria» pollutants.

Given the impacts on indirect deaths I believe that increased heating cost will adversely affect mortality if low income people can not afford to keep their homes warm enough to prevent potential health impacts of cold weather.

Alongside direct subsidies the International Monetary Fund estimated indirect costs (in particular involving health) of perhaps $ 5 trillion annually, 6.5 % of global GDP.

Factoring in «indirect costs» such as books, housing, board, and health insurance (which can cost between $ 12,500 and $ 25,000 per academic year), the stated «cost of attendance» at the most expensive law schools nears $ 75,000 per year.

Both direct, as well as indirect costs, have to be considered before buying a health insurance policy.

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Child maltreatment in any form causes long - lasting harm to children's health and development, and in the United States alone carries a yearly estimated direct and indirect cost of over $ 100 billion in services to recognize the abuse, intervene, and address its detrimental effects.

Despite the documented direct effects of physical abuse on the health of children, the recognition that early childhood trauma is a leading predictor of adult morbidity and early mortality, and the enormous indirect costs of funding the social and legal systems required to investigate abuse, protect children, hold perpetrators accountable and treat affected families, available public resources have not adequately addressed the problem.

Measuring Costs of Child Abuse and Neglect: A Mathematic Model of Specific Cost Estimations Conrad Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, 29 (1/2), 2006 View Abstract Offers a model for calculating the actual costs of child abuse and neglect based on direct, indirect, and opportunity costs associated with each Costs of Child Abuse and Neglect: A Mathematic Model of Specific Cost Estimations Conrad Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, 29 (1/2), 2006 View Abstract Offers a model for calculating the actual costs of child abuse and neglect based on direct, indirect, and opportunity costs associated with each costs of child abuse and neglect based on direct, indirect, and opportunity costs associated with each costs associated with each case.

A study has shown that direct and indirect medical costs were twice as high as those of family members of a control group.54 The difference in these costs was primarily due to a higher incidence of mental health problems in the family members of ADHD patients, which reflects the increased stresses and demands of living with an adult or child with ADHD.