Sentences with phrase «public health costs»

At the same time, the evidence for large - scale public health costs from continued coal use is there.

Carbon taxes have been proposed in developed countries as a mechanism to internalize the environmental and public health costs of burning fossil fuels, which are currently externalized and foisted off on the public.

Expansion of renewable, non-combustion energy resources helps protect people from air pollutants and contributes to significant savings in public health costs.

And coal disappears from the map if you add the environmental and public health costs associated with various energy sources (the third map), including a $ 62 per metric ton price on carbon dioxide emissions.

Public health costs for the estimated 600,000 high - school dropouts in 2004 totaled about $ 58 billion.

Given the deleterious outcomes associated with EBP, as well as the staggering public health costs that accompany special education placements (Pelham et al. 2007), significant efforts have been made towards developing effective early intervention programs.

And that is without taking into account the enormous security and public health costs of fossil fuels, as well as the appalling pollution catastrophes on the Gulf Coast, the Niger Delta and elsewhere.

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).

Even IF their are economic consequences to choosing to breastfeed (which I'm not convinced of, especially from a public health cost perspective), but even so, the answer is NOT to encourage women to stop breastfeeding (and sacrifice the numerous health benefits to mother and baby), but instead to change the system into one that respects and values the role of healthy parenting — mom or dad.

One article I read is by endocrine society who brings into question this taboo against sunlight, if you look at the public health cost of Vitamin D related disorders, if you include things that are thought to may be, be vitamin D related, like the cancers, the prostrate breast cancers, the Rickets and Osteomalacia compared to the public health cost of skin cancers, it could be much, much higher.

The research is part of a larger effort by Harvard and Columbia to provide local stakeholders with an effective tool to assess the public health costs from fires and guide policy decisions.

A revised Medicaid sterilization policy that removes logistical barriers, including a mandatory 30 - day waiting period, could potentially honor women's reproductive decisions, reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and save $ 215 million in public health costs each year, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

In countries without ART reimbursement, the Belgian model with restricted embryo transfer policy can be used to achieve at least a 50 % reduction in MPR [multiple pregnancy rates] and associated public health costs, with no negative impact on the CDR per patient, quite relevant to patients who have to pay ART treatments themselves.

There is a huge need for monetizing the public health costs, especially in developing countries,» Cleetus said.

If Dongtan lives up to expectations, it will serve as a model for cities across China and the rest of the developing world — cities that, given new tools, might leapfrog the environmental and public health costs that have always come with economic progress... Even old American and European cities may find bits and pieces of Dongtan that they can use, especially when they redevelop industrial plots or build out at the edges.

The public health costs of pollution from coal operations in Appalachia amount to a staggering $ 75 billion a year

Those reductions would lower both the number of hospitalizations and premature deaths caused by the plants» pollution, as well as the estimated $ 127 million in public health costs the plants create each year.

That has a public health cost — lack of exercise is far more dangerous than biking without a helmet.