Housing in the area is very costly--a factor for which employees must be compensated.
The link between excessive body weight and health is an important concern for public health policy, because obesity is a well-known risk factor for many costly diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and some types of cancer.
Factor combinations 3, 6 and 5 are dominated by (are less effective and more costly than) factor combination 7. The ICER for factor 7 compared to factor 4 (the next less effective and non-dominated comparator) is £5,533 per additional QALY.
Type 2 diabetes, one of the most costly chronic diseases, is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality (1).
However, the positive interaction of these measures with stakeholders is the decisive factor for their application and effectiveness and also the least costly way.
A factor for the low uptake of the GPwSI role was that it was estimated to be more costly than hospital outpatient care [ 8].
While cost was factored in, it was not a primary or even secondary factor for determining which technology was the best available, nor does it enable a city agency or contractor to select a technology simply because it is less costly.
Expressing so-called virulence proteins or factors is costly for an individual bacterium, and mutants that stop making these factors can, therefore, benefit at the expense of other bacteria that continue to do so.
Weather and distance are limiting factors for satellites, and buoys are costly and stationary.
For example, among persons without risk factors for influenza, hospitalization was most costly for persons who were aged 50 64 years (Mean = $23,281; Range: $20,887-$20,887-$26,159
