Sentences with phrase «national estimates of the cost»

They also made national estimates of the cost of unnecessary cardiac stress testing with imaging and the health burden of this testing, in terms of cancer risk due to radiation exposure.

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The national cost of false - positive tests and overdiagnosed breast cancer is estimated at $ 4 billion a year, according to a 2015 study in Health Affairs.

In 2016, the National Association of Home Builders estimated regulatory costs added nearly $ 85,000 to the cost of a home, up more than 30 % since 2011.

«Mr. Speaker, as I indicated and as the member knows,» Ms. Ambrose offered the NDP's Matthew Kellway, «the Auditor General asked that the Department of National Defence refine its cost estimates.

The current lack of «midstream» infrastructure has turned Canada into a supplier held captive by our only customer (the United States), which costs our national economy an estimated $ 50 million dollars each day.

He also asked that the Department of National Defence start to apply a full life cycle cost estimate, and it also has done that.»

Whereas estimates from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey and Living Costs and Food Survey are broadly comparable (123 mL / adult / day versus 168 mL / person / day), the British Soft Drinks Association's figures are threefold to fourfold higher.48 61 The level and pattern of consumption will determine the magnitude of the public health effects of a sugar sweetened drinks tax, as well as its effect on health inequalities.

The National Audit Office has estimated the cost to the UK economy of offending by young people as # 11bn per year.

At the cost of $ 118 million, National Grid has begun construction on a new power station at its Gardenville site in the Town of West Seneca, where company officials estimate one third of the region's power is currently distributed.

Their work, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Robert A. Welch Foundation, is important because some one percent of Americans are afflicted with autism, and the annual cost of autism management in the United States alone is estimated to be at least $ 236 billion.

The research, published in JAMA Internal Medicine by a team from the U-M Department of Neurology, uses national data on headache - related doctor visits and neuroimaging scans by people over age 18, and calculates estimated total costs across multiple years.

The annual national cost burden of pediatric IBD from hospitalizations alone is estimated at more than $ 150 million.

The new version will have a wide audience: the National Gardening Association estimates 82 million U.S. households do some form of gardening, a number expected to increase as more Americans plant vegetable gardens to cut food costs.

The study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, estimates that the aggregate savings from reduced hospital expenditures associated with expanded Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage totaled approximately $ 1.5 billion per year, or approximately 2.2 % of the total $ 67.7 billion cost of Medicare Part D in 2011.

The authors estimate that even a 5 percent decline in MMR vaccine coverage in the U.S. would result in an estimated three-fold increase in national measles cases in children ages 2 to 11, for a total of 150 cases and an additional $ 2.1 million in public sector costs.

They collated data obtained from international health organisations (WHO and EUROSTAT), as well as national ministries of health and statistical institutes to estimate the total costs of blood disorders.

Osteoporosis and associated fractures represent a major national public health problem, costing the health system billions of dollars per year (total cost estimated at $ 33.6 billion for 2012 - 2022)-- and with the demographic tsunami of aging upon us, the scale of Australia's osteoporosis problem will continue to rise.

However, the estimated lifecycle cost of the MOX program has increased to approximately $ 30 billion, prompting the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to assess alternatives to the MOX approach.

However, policymakers, scientific administrators, patients, and physicians have not had a national estimate of the health care burden and costs of preeclampsia.

The company is progressively rehabilitating the site, which is surrounded by the Kakadu National Park, in a project set to continue to 2026 at an estimated total cost of around a billion dollars.

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).

Estimates suggest that in the U.S., Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects 12 percent of people over age 65 and nearly 50 percent of those over 85, with predictions for this to include 16 million people by 2050.1 National healthcare costs associated with AD are expected to surpass one trillion dollars by mid - century.1

The American Diabetes Association estimates that the total national cost of diagnosed diabetes in the -LSB-...]

The most comprehensive national data published on employer costs, the BLS National Compensation Survey (NCS), provide estimates of employer insurance costs on a «per - hour - worked» basis for 180 groups of employees, broken down by occupational groups, industries, ownership (private industry or state and local government), and other charactenational data published on employer costs, the BLS National Compensation Survey (NCS), provide estimates of employer insurance costs on a «per - hour - worked» basis for 180 groups of employees, broken down by occupational groups, industries, ownership (private industry or state and local government), and other characteNational Compensation Survey (NCS), provide estimates of employer insurance costs on a «per - hour - worked» basis for 180 groups of employees, broken down by occupational groups, industries, ownership (private industry or state and local government), and other characteristics.

We estimate from these data that the national average of annual employer insurance costs in 2012 was $ 8,559 for K — 12 teachers, and $ 6,803 for private - sector professionals.

Another study, which looked at the aggregate costs and benefits of national service — including both social and fiscal — estimated the social and economic returns to total approximately $ 7.5 billion.

Pioneer's national estimate of $ 16 billion includes nearly $ 7 billion for technology infrastructure — costs that authors of the Fordham study say most districts have already incurred.

Education finance policy researchers, Lawrence O. Picus, Allan Odden, and Michael Goetz, apply their evidence - based approach to estimate the national and state - by - state costs of PreK - 3rd approaches.

In addition to the national figure, Ingersoll also provides cost estimates for all fifty states and the District of Columbia that range between roughly $ 2 million in Delaware, Vermont, and Wyoming and up to $ 235 million in Texas.

One national study found struggling readers are four times more likely to drop out of high school and, as adults, these dropouts can cost society an estimated $ 260,000 in lost earnings, taxes, and productivity.

Additionally, the National Conference of State Legislatures estimates that remedial education costs students, parents, and states $ 2.3 billion annually.

Tezas insurance costs are considerably above the national average, but keep in mind that this is only an estimate of how much your policy will cost you.

We calculated this cost by collecting a number of mortgage closing cost estimates for a home in the largest state for a house with the national median value.

Texas insurance costs are considerably above the national average, but keep in mind that this is only an estimate of how much your policy will cost you.

Buffett estimated his decision to put National Indemnity inside of Berkshire instead of in his partnership ended up costing Berkshire around $ 100 billion.

They told us that while some of the specific plant cost predictions are inaccurate, the national picture and aggregate amounts estimated by BNEF are accurate.

Health - related costs of the current effects of ozone air pollution exceeding national standards have been estimated at $ 6.5 billion (in 2008 U.S. dollars) nationwide, based on a U.S. assessment of health impacts from ozone levels during 2000 to 2002.153,154

In the National Academies white paper, after drawing on existing resources in a region such as universities, public media, and science museums and centers, I estimate the high end cost for funding these three types of initiatives at an intensive level at $ 1 million annually.

To estimate the economic cost of the proposed regulations, we employed the Heritage Energy Model (HEM), a derivative of the National Energy Model System 2014 Full Release (NEMS).

The manual shares hands - on experiences from field programs and presents the essential practical and theoretical steps, methods and tools to estimate the opportunity costs of REDD + at the national level.

Thanks to the rising cost of coal and natural gas — as well as the short - term cost benefits of cadmium telluride, and falling costs of silicon and other solar options — the National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that solar energy could reach nationwide grid parity by 2017.

By one informed estimate, the total cost of the right - wing network of policy centers, advocacy groups, and media outlets that laid the foundation for seizing control of the national agenda was around $ 300 million.

Health - related costs of the current effects of ozone air pollution exceeding national standards have been estimated at $ 6.5 billion (in 2008 U.S. dollars) nationwide, based on a U.S. assessment of health impacts from ozone levels during 2000 — 2002.

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says Hurricane Katrina caused an estimated $ 108 billion of damage, with last year's superstorm Sandy thought to have cost $ 75 billion.

We added the ALEC cost estimates to a graph of actual wind transactions created by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (see graph below; «PPA» means purchased power agreement).

«Customers,» says Ed LaRocque, Toyota's national manager of advanced technology, «are not telling us plug - in hybrids are something they'd like to see at no cost, let alone what we estimate would be an additional $ 15,000.»

The studio collaborated with top engineers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on the project, which is now saving the studio an estimated 2.6 million kWh in energy per year — a cost savings of more than $ 1,000 a day.

The NAS National Research Council calculates that the health costs from fossil fuel combustion are in the billions: «WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates «hidden» costs of energy production and use — such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health — that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them.

Energy storage devices called ultracapacitors could lower the cost of the battery packs in plug - in hybrid vehicles by hundreds or even thousands of dollars by cutting the size of the packs in half, according to estimates by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, IL.

By comparing average local electricity costs with the projected average national price of an installed rooftop solar system, we can estimate the percentage of states that may have — or may soon have — competitive rooftop solar power.