This paper examines the trends in costs associated with the various low technology shoreline clean-up methods that were used in the response to the SEA EMPRESS incident, by drawing on information gathered during the response and the subsequent claims for compensation from the local government councils involved. Analysis of the costs allowed the level of effort invested in shoreline cleaning to ...

Some hypothesize that poor consumers pay more for food because stores that serve them have higher costs. We assess how supermarket characteristics and operating costs differ with the percentage of sales from food stamp redemptions. Results do not support the hypothesis that costs are higher for stores serving the poor. Acknowledgements: This research was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation...

OBJECTIVE To describe the costs of providing support to breastfeeding low-income women and compares costs to cost offsets of the intervention. DESIGN Secondary analysis of data from a randomized controlled trial of an intervention to promote breastfeeding among low-income women with full-term infants. SETTING A university hospital and a community hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. PARTICIPA...

OBJECTIVE To identify and quantify attributes that lead to unanticipated cost escalation in workers' compensation claims. METHODS We constructed four claim categories: low initial reserve/low cost, migrated catastrophic (low initial reserve/high cost), high initial reserve/low cost, and catastrophic (high initial reserve/high cost). To assess the attributes associated with the increased cost ...

Studies suggest that income replacement is low for many workers with serious occupational injuries and illnesses. This review discusses three areas that hold promise for raising benefits to workers while reducing workers' compensation costs to employers: improving safety, containing medical costs, and reducing litigation. In theory, workers' compensation increases the costs to employers of inju...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to estimate national hospital costs for infant admissions that are associated with preterm birth/low birth weight. METHODS Infant (<1 year) hospital discharge data, including delivery, transfers, and readmissions, were analyzed by using the 2001 Nationwide Inpatient Sample from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. The Nationwide Inpatient Samp...