The economic impact of obesity in the United States potx

... spending that is 41.5% higher as a result of obesity. Rather than providing a point-estimate of obesity s impact on spending, Thorpe et al17 focus on assessing the link between increases in obesity ... 10.2147/DMSOTT.S7384 The economic impact of obesity in the United States Ross A Hammond Ruth Levine Economic Studies Program, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USACorrespondence: Ross A Hammond Brookings ... substantial economic impacts of obesity are identiﬁed in all four categories by existing research. The magnitude of potential economic impact underscores the importance of the obesity epidemic...

Tài liệu THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN AUSTIN ppt

... Operating and maintaining these housing units produces an annual economic impact in the City of Austin of $38.5 million in today’s dollars. When the remaining funds are expended in the coming ... the prospective impact of another round of bonds to be issued in 2012. Summary of Findings The construction of housing made possible by the 2006 bond funds has produced an economic impact in ... HOUSING MAY 2012 Civic Economics 13 ECONOMIC IMPACT FINDINGS: ONGOING Household Savings The impact of savings to residents of affordable housing units is treated as household income. Therefore,...

Tài liệu From Burden to “Best Buys”: Reducing the Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pdf

... burden of NCDs: • A global analysis of the economic impact of NCDs by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health• An analysis of the costs of scaling up a core intervention ... policy dialogue, including the UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs. Their ﬁndings shed light on:• Size of the problem – Economic analysis by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health ... country income category). The total burden is lowest in the low-income countries, in part because the value of lost earnings in this group is low and in part because the total population of this...

Tài liệu The high price of pain: the economic impact of persistent pain in Australia pdf

... constructed according to the cause of the chronic pain from a number of different sources and combined using AFs. The high price of pain: the economic impact of persistent pain in Australia ... estimate the economic impact of chronic pain in Australia in 2007. Chronic pain is defined as pain experienced every day for three months or more in the previous six months. The report covers the ... improved. • There is a lack of data on the prevalence of chronic pain in children (between the ages of 0-14 years). While the experience of experts in the field suggests that chronic pain in children...

The Economic Impact of Cloud Computing on Business Creation, Employment and Output in Europe pdf

... in ICT and turn part of them into variable costs. In our analy-sis we focus on the reduction in the fixed cost associated with the introduction of cloud computing. The increase in the marginal ... decreasing in the number of firms. The latter follows the equation of mo-tion:whereNEt,is the number of new firms and is the rate of business destruction. The real value of a firmVtis the ... Evaluating the Economic Impact of Cloud Computing: Results forEU Countries In this section we report the results of our experiment on the introduction and dif-fusion of cloud computing in the...

An estimation of the economic impact of chronic noncommunicable diseases in selected countries ppt

... diseases, in that it mainly explored the impact of disease on the economy through change in labour supply, or the opportunity cost of one unit of labour, and through the impact of the cost of treating ... exploring the economic impact of chronic diseases are: 1. the cost perspective, that is, exploring the economic cost of failing to intervene; and 2. the benefit perspective, that is., exploring the ... presentation of the data and their sources, as well as variables applied to the model, including the approach to estimation; 4. A presentation of the results of the analysis; 5. The discussion of the...

Tài liệu The Fiscal Impact of Immigrants in Austria – A Generational Accounting Analysis ppt

... publicliabilities. Since immigrants typically are of working age at the time of their entry into the country, they enlarge the group of net tax payers and thus reduce the inter-temporal ﬁscal53 In Bonin (2001), ... presented in the previous s ec tions were derived under certain assumptions regarding the projected population, the interest rate and the growth rate. In order to test for the robustness of the ﬁndings ... wecompute the size of inter-temporal public liabilities, or the so-called ’true public debt’, whichis the diﬀerence between the nominal value of public debt at the beginning of the base yearand...

Tài liệu A NOTE ON MEASURING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION ppt

... June). Economic Impact of Northern239 ECONOMIC IMPACT OF HIGHER EDUCATIONIllinois University on the Northern Illinois Region, Parer presetted at the annualmeeting at the Midcontinent ... (1995, June 1). The Economic Impact of the University of Northern Iowaon the State of Iowa. Cedar Falls, IA: Department of Economics, The University of Northern Iowa.Butler, ... of local economic impact. Moreover, states and universities are cautioned not to place the debate over education financing ex-clusively in the realm of economic impact, since there...

Tài liệu The Economic Promise of Investing in High-Quality Preschool: Using Early Education to Improve Economic Growth and the Fiscal Sustainability of States and the Nation pptx

... determinant of economic growth, and U.S. business leaders realize the long-term economic benefits of investing in earlylearning. A December 2005 poll of business leadersshows that they overwhelmingly ... preparation.72Furthermore, investing during the preschool yearsconfers the benefits of time. Investing early providesmany more years across which to recoup the costsavings from the initial investment. ... 267-303] The Economic Promise of Investing in High-Quality Preschool:Using Early Education to Improve Economic Growth and the Fiscal Sustainability of States and the NationCommittee for Economic...

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