There are important challenges in the application of cost-effectiveness analysis results in the real world that highlight the great divide between academic research and practical application. The difficulty is magnified in cancer because of the intense emotions it raises and their influence on decision making, impacting treatment funding decisions. Nevertheless, the potential for costeffectiven...

The University for Development Studies is a public university in Ghana that owns and manages fleet of vehicles. university, however, faces numerous challenges terms maintaining its Reports from the various campuses indicate most vehicles broke down were at mechanic shops needed urgent attention. In order to propose solutions university's problems, study sought discover causes vehicles' frequent...

Can a significant number of radon-related lung cancers be averted by mitigating existing single-family houses whose radon is above the action level? Would societal resources be used cost effectively by a comprehensive measurement and mitigation policy using the existing or some other radon action level? Simple questions, complex answers. The risk of lung cancer depends on the radon exposure in ...

Current National Health Service (NHS) policy in the United Kingdom recommends that services should be provided closer to the patient [1] as there are many anticipated benefits in shifting the balance of care away from a central hub to delivering services near to patients’ homes. In implementing this policy, ‘nurseled’ initiatives have often been adopted for a variety of reasons, such as the cap...

International emissions trading is widely seen as an indispensable policy pillar of climate change mitigation (Stern, 2007). This article analyzes five different types of trading architectures, classified into two top-down (UNFCCC driven) and three bottom-up (driven by individual countries or regions) approaches. The two types of approaches are characterized by a trade-off between environmental...

This paper develops multiple-pollutant marginal abatement cost curve analysis to identify an optimal set of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation measures considering the trade-offs and synergies with other environmental pollutants. The analysis is applied to UK agriculture, a sector expected to make a contribution to the national GHG mitigation effort. Previous analyses using marginal abatement cost...

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Links between emission trading programs are not immutable, as highlighted by New Jersey's exit from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in 2011. This raises the question of what to do with existing permits that are banked for future use—choices that have consequences for market behavior in advance of, or upon speculation about, delinking. We consider two delinking policies. One differentiate...