... burden of NCDs: • A global analysis of the economicimpactof NCDs by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health • An analysis of the costs of scaling up a core intervention ... mitigate this impact It brings together findings from two recently completed studies that can inform international policy dialogue, including the UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs Their findings shed ... per capita investment of under US$ in low-income countries, US$ 1.50 in lower middle-income and US$ in upper middleincome countries When considered in terms of overall health spending, these...
... Justin Scoggins, The Economic Benefits of Naturalization (tentative title) (Los Angeles, CA: University of Southern California, Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration, 2012, forthcoming) ... Pastor and Justin Scoggins, for example, find that in 2010 naturalized citizens 30 earned percent more than noncitizens, after 20 adjusting for differences in variables that included 10 industry and ... Nationality in Latin America and Its Consequences for the United 10 The Economic Value of Citizenship for Immigrants in the United States Migration Policy Institute III What Is the Economic Value of...
... annum-increase ineconomic growth of between 0.3 to 0.4% is associated with a 10% increase in life expectancy (Report of CMH), which is mainly accounted for by the reduction in the burden of cardiovascular ... narrow view ofeconomicimpactof chronic diseases, in that it mainly explored the impactof disease on the economy through change in labour supply, or the opportunity cost of one unit of labour, ... intervene; and the benefit perspective, that is., exploring the accruable gains from timely interventions Approaches to estimating economicimpactof chronic diseases in the literature fall into...
... Determinants of agreement between self-reported and parent-assessed quality of life forchildrenin Germany - Results of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey forChildren and ... a quality of life instrument [16, 23-25] In contrast to most quality of life instruments for minors, which had originally been developed in English and then translated into German in a methodologically ... limitations in comparison to other childrenof same age’’, ‘‘use of or need of special therapies’’ and ‘‘treatment or counselling for emotional or developmental problems’’ [30] Information on pain in...
... effects of CFS on earnings from the results of Linear OLS, GLM, and a twopart model (the first part using a logistic regression for binary indicator for having earnings and the second part using ... significant For examining the impactof CFS on earnings, Additional file 2, Table S4 summarizes its impact on earning controlling separately for the interaction with the reported educational attainment ... http://www.resource-allocation.com/content/9/1/1 for conceiving of the idea to measure direct and indirect costs related to CFS and for his role as CDC’s principal investigator of the study, Dr Martin Meltzer of CDC for his review of the...
... THE ECONOMICIMPACTOF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING MAY 2012 Map Civic Economics THE ECONOMICIMPACTOF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING THE ECONOMICIMPACTOF ... million, assuming comparable leverage Operating and maintaining these housing units produces an annual economicimpactin the City of Austin of $38.5 million in today’s dollars When the remaining funds ... Source: Civic Economics, IMPLAN, HousingWorks Civic Economics 12 THE ECONOMICIMPACTOF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING MAY 2012 Table ECONOMICIMPACT FINDINGS: ONGOING TOTAL IMPACTS...
... calculated in Section 4.6, where the nature of DWLs is explained in more detail.) 4.2 CARER COSTS Carers are people who provide informal care to others in need of assistance or support Most informal carers ... Adequate ongoing funding injections are required to increase services to the informal carers of people with chronic pain, in particular for education, peer support and respite • Given the link between ... Management Research Institute to estimate the economicimpactof chronic pain in Australia in 2007 Chronic pain is defined as pain experienced every day for three months or more in the previous six...
... measure Finally, cloud computing is going to introduce the possibility of a) sharing resources (and costs) among a large pool of users, b) allowing for centralization ofEconomicImpactof Cloud ... element of the era of Web 2.0, in which Internet is used as a software platform (O’Reilly, 2005), or simply as an application of the generativity power of the Internet (Zittrain, 2007) Economic Impact ... Computing on Business Creation, Employment and Output 185 Evaluating the EconomicImpactof Cloud Computing: Methodology and Data Our approach in the evaluation of the impactof the diffusion of...
... following the drop in fat and protein prices but still remaining above intervention (which was also reduced in the baseline 14 See Annex for some explanations on the balancing of fat and protein in ... reform of the sugar quota, a 2% expansion of milk quotas in 2008 and the abolition of obligatory set-aside are included Member States had the possibility of maintaining certain maximum shares of ... quota, following the increase in quota (in 11 MS of the EU-15, due to the enlargement and granting of restructuring reserves for the EU-10) reductions in the intervention prices for butter and...
... Buying online 17 14 Spending a lot of time online 14 Using instant messaging tools 12 Downloading/playing films Downloading/playing music 11 Giving out personal information 10 Accessing certain websites ... supervision ofchildren using the Internet than for the monitoring ofchildren s online activities (e.g checking the history file or e-mail) Setting rules forchildren s Internet use Parents in all ... Spending a lot of time online 63 Creating a profile in an online community 61 Using chat rooms 49 Accessing certain websites Downloading/playing music, films, games 38 Using email/instant messaging...
... portion of per-capita health care spending increases between 1987 and 2001 to be 27% (adjusted for inflation), with 12% due solely to increases in prevalence of obesity Most of this increase ... per-person cost of around $700 a year Productivity costs In addition to direct medical costs of obesity, a number of more indirect costs are part of the overall economicimpactof obesity Of these, ... ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions in order to control for endogeneity of weight in determining work absence Covariates generally include demographic variables, years of education, income,...
... analysis meaningful, we compare the impactof additional [2] public spending on higher education with the impactof equivalent public spending on other kinds ofeconomic activity, including casinos, ... education in that relationship In this report we examine both the short-run employment impactof additional spending on higher education and the long-run financial impactof investing in a better-educated ... wages in these various sectors of employment? In addition, the analysis of public higher education spending in Massachusetts must account for both in- state spending and out -of- state leakage Spending/investment...
... is intended to generate calculations for incremental workforce needs for scaling up HIV care only Integrated care facilities will need to consider workforce needs for other health problems in ... Director for HAI, where he supports provincial planning for the Ministry of Health Demand We assumed patients present to the health care system following a referral from one of a number of HIV testing ... different staffing configurations Using each of the methods offered by the Input Control portion of the model, we offer three scenarios and sets of results by way of example After inputting assumptions...
... Zidovudine and efavirenz were used as alternatives in case of intolerance or interaction with other drugs Preparation for ART initiation included a minimum of three counselling sessions for the caregiver ... data interpretation PI led the writing of the manuscript; all investigators participated in its final writing and editing Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... people involved in this study, including the Ministry of Health of Cambodia and the personnel of the Donkeo Hospital and the Angkor Hospital forChildren We are grateful to Sopheap Khem for his...
... out in the Contract, the scope of our work has been limited by the time, information and explanations made available to us The information contained in the any liability arising out of the use of ... Provision of health insurance and ambulances in all regions, including Darfur; and • Assistance in increasing blood donations Introduction 1.1 Background Spend on CSR programmes is accounted forin ... GDP growth rates in Sudan by 0.12% for each 1% increase in penetration7 As such, the 6% increase in penetration in 2008 may have led to an increase in GDP growth rates of 0.7% in the long-run...
... analysis ofeconomicimpact on GDP and employment economicimpactof the mobile industry in Sudan In sum, we estimate that the economicimpactof the mobile sector in Sudan represents 4.0% in 2008 ... and • The presence of MNOs increasing inward investment acting as a signal to other international investors’ confidence in the Sudanese market as well as serving the needs of investors 3G ... network infrastructure providers observe few impediments in installing and maintaining capital equipment17 and significant achievements in deployment have been realised since Mobitel now Zain initially...
... side impact: Intangible benefits Finally, we seek to identify the intangible impactof the mobile industry in Sudan We utilise information provided to us during interviews in Sudan and evidence of ... levels of informal activity imply greater need for co-ordination between individuals since there is less formal communication at the company level; and Figure 27: Economicimpactin 2008 of increased ... MNOs are also intervening directly in the provision of healthcare with a number of projects Zain for example, is building a hospital in Kordofan as well as providing several ambulances in regions...
... included in the analysis only contained information regarding the category of HCW and the area they worked in, the rest of the questionnaire was not filled inOf the remaining 94 questionnaires, 72 (77%) ... telemedicine service for HIV/AIDS physicians working in developing countries J Telemed Telecare 2010 South African National Department of Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Management of HIV and ... HCW Hotline was established in March 2008, in response to the roll-out of ART in the public sector of South Africa, to provide information and decision support on the treatment of HIV infection...
... beginning of the model period, as well as the effects of each treatment regimen were obtained from a clinical trial assessing the efficacy of combining nateglinide (360 mg/day) with metformin ... nateglinide-metformin combination on the cost of managing complications, the difference in mean cost between metformin alone and the combination group was determined (Table 3) Thus, savings of £464 ... efficacy of the combination of nateglinide and metformin on PPG values had a minor effect, a 50% reduction in efficacy led to a 3% increase in macrovascular disease related costs Varying the impact of...