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[What is a cost-benefit analysis?].
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This article is published in Medizinische Monatsschrift für Pharmazeuten.The article was published on 2004-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 844 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Total absorption costing & Relevant cost.read more
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The value of occupational safety and health and the societal costs of work-related injuries and diseases
Emile Tompa,Amir Mofidi,S. van den Heuvel,T. van Bree,Frithjof Michaelsen,Young Jung,L. Porsch,M. van Emmerik +7 more
TL;DR: Insight into the financial consequences of occupational injury and disease provides governments, policy-makers and employers’ organisations with relevant data for the purpose of developing occupational safety and health policies and agreements and will contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources for OSH.
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Calculating Cost‐effectiveness for Activities with Multiple Environmental Effects Using the Maximum Abatement Cost Method
TL;DR: In this paper, a maximum abatement cost (MAC) method is proposed as a means of assessing preferential purchasing of products with multiple environmental effects, which is illustrated with an assessment of industrial pumps.
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Heterogeneous water supply affects growth and benefits of clonal integration between co-existing invasive and native Hydrocotyle species
TL;DR: In a greenhouse experiment, severed or no severed fragments of Hydrocotyle vulgaris and its co-existing, native congener H. sibthorpioides were subjected to different spatial patchiness and temporal interval in water supply to alter the effects of clonal integration of both species.
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Housing, the Built Environment, and the Good Life.
Jennifer Molinsky,Ann Forsyth +1 more
TL;DR: Here, the focus is on how to improve the fit of environments for people as they age, particularly as they relate to physical, social, and mental well-being.
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Optimal resource allocation for curing Chlamydia trachomatis infection among asymptomatic women at clinics operating on a fixed budget.
TL;DR: Using resource allocation models enables clinic managers operating with a fixed budget to identify a strategy that maximizes the number of asymptomatic women cured and cost savings when the clinic age distribution and age-specific C trachomatis prevalences are known.
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Plant Ecological Strategies: Some Leading Dimensions of Variation Between Species
TL;DR: The leaf mass per area–leaf lifespan (LMA-LL) dimension expresses slow turnover of plant parts, long nutrient residence times, and slow response to favorable growth conditions.
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Can Electronic Medical Record Systems Transform Health Care? Potential Health Benefits, Savings, And Costs
Richard Hillestad,James H. Bigelow,Anthony G. Bower,Federico Girosi,Robin Meili,Richard Scoville,Roger Taylor +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the potential health and financial benefits of health information technology (HIT) are examined and the potential savings and costs of widespread adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) systems, models important health and safety benefits, and concludes that effective EMR implementation and networking could eventually save more than $81 billion annually.
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Assessment of adaptation practices, options, constraints and capacity
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TL;DR: Enright et al. as discussed by the authors presented the Enright-Fankhauser-Gabel-Nantel-Klein model, which is based on the work of the authors of this paper.
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TL;DR: The areas of energy, water and food policy have numerous interwoven concerns ranging from ensuring access to services, to environmental impacts to price volatility as mentioned in this paper, and these issues manifest in very di...
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Sustainable Tourism: An Overview of the Concept and its Position in Relation to Conceptualisations of Tourism
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