Cost effectiveness

This is then used to allocate healthcare resources, with an intervention with a lower cost to QALY saved (incremental cost effectiveness) ratio ( ICER ) being preferred over an intervention with a higher ratio.

I fail to see how discussions on improving security in space, or discussions on dealing with the subject of nuclear disarmament, could threaten anyone's security interests.

Cost effectiveness remains an issue at the heart of Parties' concerns.

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The Cost Effectiveness Ratio (CER) is the mathematical representation of this analysis.

3. Decides to adopt the following additional measures for improving the effectiveness of the Disarmament Commission's methods of work

The additional costs are covered by the provision of cost increases included in UNIDO's approved programme and budget estimates for the 2004 2005 biennium.

Additional mutations, however, may compensate for this fitness cost and can aid the survival of these bacteria.

Those incremental costs should be covered by supplementary appropriations, with a UNIDO share amounting to 0.24 million euros.

The incremental costs of the special glass should be covered through supplementary appropriations, with a UNIDO share amounting to 0.24 million euros.

And, while it is cost effective, recent published estimates indicate that golden rice is much more so.

Building developers often don t want the extra cost or extra hassle of breaking old habits. And why should they?

His Majesty's Government shall also bear the requisite operating costs of the Centre, including additional security related expenses.

In such instances, the output purchased by consumers is the same, and the additional cost is imperceptible.

a Cost estimates for additional 2005 06 requirements are inclusive of a 25 per cent delayed recruitment factor.

(e) Cost effectiveness the extent to which the outcomes of the Committee are commensurate with the resources invested, in terms of both the quantity and quality of its deliberations.

Unfortunately, bad political choices often make these policies even less cost effective.

Host organizations and other local stakeholders make both financial and in kind contributions to the centres, such as secondment of personnel and provision of office facilities and equipment.

UNICEF agrees to conduct a supply chain review to identify ways to improve cost effectiveness and customer service.

9 WFP has a relatively simple and transparent system in place that ensures that recovery from supplementary contributions covers all incremental costs plus an appropriate share of administrative costs (called indirect support costs in WFP terminology).

In these circumstances, the additional costs of debt service easily outweigh any gains that might come from some measure of fiscal relaxation.

In both cases, the effective protection of human subjects should receive much higher priority, thereby justifying the modest added expense, which probably would amount to no more than 1 2 of the overall cost of clinical studies.

And economic models show that France has lost as many or more jobs because of the extra costs of the subsidies.

The additional five locations, currently hosting UNIDO Focal Points, would be upgraded without following the agreed cost sharing principles stipulated in the Agreement.

The additional costs of meeting the new requirements include initial export losses costs of national capacity building and costs of initial and continued compliance at enterprise level.

She assumed that costs would not be prohibitively high, given the achievements that had already been made by other multilateral environmental agreements, which could be used to the benefit of the Rotterdam Convention. The Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol were specifically designed to cover the incremental costs associated with achieving global benefits.

Food fortification and iron supplementation are widely ranked among the most cost effective interventions for poverty reduction.

Additional Compact impact reimbursement is authorized if impact costs rise above the mandatory appropriation of 30 million per year.

1.30 The share of the funds and programmes towards the additional costs to be borne by the United Nations reflects a corresponding increase in extrabudgetary resources.

In many (if not most) of these situations, the incremental costs of obtaining Rotterdam related benefits could be quite modest.

Outdoor relief, as the alternative was known, was expanded as the most cost effective way to address the poverty problem.

Indeed, improved coordination between countries would contribute to more cost efficient use of resources and equipment.

Australia considers that integrated IAEA safeguards are essential to the effective and cost effective implementation of strengthened safeguards.

The European Commission has played a very helpful role through its structural funds, which cover up to 80 of the additional costs involved in integrating the Roma.

The Group took note of the fact that the funds required for security obligations with regard to window replacement had been reduced to the incremental costs of the shatter resistant glass.

Other additional costs include the running of a logistics centre for all incoming mail and deliveries and sustaining a larger infrastructure to support a campus environment.

The additional recovery income offsets the growth in support budget expenditures, thus maximizing the funds available for programme assistance.

A tripling of the excise tax would roughly double the price of cigarettes (as has happened in New York City), preventing about three million deaths per year by 2030.

Since October 2000, cumulative costs incurred due to additional storage, demurrage and transport amounted to 10.6 million by February 2005.

This would make government services more effective, while helping to catalyze additional development aid from traditional donors and mobilize private sector resources.

In that context, the Group took note that the funds required for security obligations with regard to window replacement had been reduced to the incremental costs of the shatter resistant glass, and that other window replacement costs could be covered by available BMS funds.

It was also viewed as a means to avoid duplication, reduce costs, maximize synergies among agencies and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of programmes.

While this additional cost can be borne by health care systems in the rich world, it is excessive for poor countries, implying no, or insufficient, treatment.

It can be conducted at a different location, if a country offers to host the conference and to pay the additional costs of hosting the conference away from UN HQ.