Consequently, this group of extraordinarily high users of medical resources has inevitably become a target of several types of cost-containment strategies, such as disease management, care management, and utilization review[ 1, 6].
In addition, several types of costs were not determined, such as the out-of-pocket payment of households and individuals, or the costs of absenteeism to employers and employees.
To our knowledge, only one study has appeared, which employs a comprehensive cost model (i.e., including several types of costs) developed with empirical cost data to compare the cost-efficiency of four different techniques for observing postures from video [ 12].
Because adults spend approximately half their waking hours working, we aimed to evaluate whether several types of low-cost interventions in the working environment can stimulate the healthy lifestyle adaptations in everyday life that may contribute to halting the epidemics of obesity and hypertension.
Several types of constraints and costs are considered.
Furthermore, it is generally believed that several types of bariatric surgery are cost-effective.
The combined cost of several types of preventive programmes is around 1% of GDP, or about $5 billion per annum.
IEEE 802.15.4 is primarily targeted at simple and low-cost devices, including several types of embedded systems, sensors, and actuators.
The model used several types of input data, including proportions (or probabilities), costs, and utilities of different health states.
However, in practice, several types of uncertain data such as weather, supply, demand, cost, etc. may be involved in SOCCP.
In the shipping and transportation industry, there are several types of standard containers with different dimensions and different associated costs.
