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Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1990
Introduction: The Issue and the Argument The Marijuana Problem The Marijuana Consumption Problem The Marijuana Market Problem and the Role of Enforcement Marijuana Consumption Levels: 1986 Summary: The Goals of Marijuana Policy Choosing a Marijuana Policy Four Theories of Drug Enforcement Effectiveness Supply and Enforcement: 1982 The Dynamics of ...
John G. Haaga, Mark A. R. Kleiman
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Cost Control in Hospitals

Journal of Clinical Engineering, 1977
John R. Griffith, Walton M. Hancock, Fred C. Munson   +2 more
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Controlling the cost of breast cancer

European Journal of Cancer Care, 2011
Breast cancer management is an important part of the health-care system. In the current harsh economic climate, these costs have to be controlled, and achieving this without compromising quality of care is a daunting challenge. This article discusses the need to find effective and well-targeted chemotherapeutic regimens, which, when combined with ...
Dipender Gill, Peng H. Tan, David Bruce
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The control of manufacturing costs

2000
The ultimate criterion of the value of a product is its selling price. This price includes not only the direct or manufacturing cost, but also many indirect or overhead costs like administration, sales, research and development, maintenance, etc.
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Logistic Costs and Controlling

2009
Logistic costs are defined differently in companies. In many cases, the reported logistic costs of companies even within the same business differ more than justified by their operations. Some companies do not count interest and depreciation on inventories as logistic costs.
Herbert Kotzab, Timm Gudehus
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The Costs of Addiction and the Costs of Control

1989
The policy debate about addiction and addiction control policies is permeated with inadequate data and the misuse of these limited data. The purpose of this chapter is to describe the UK consumption trends for alcohol and tobacco since 1960, to examine existing measures of harm associated with the use of these two substances, to indicate how these ...
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Taking Steps to Control Costs in the OR

AORN Journal, 2010
AbstractHospitals continue to be challenged by rising expenses in an environment of moderate reimbursements. Health care costs have increasingly come under scrutiny and, with the advent of health care reform, will continue to be scrutinized. Perioperative nurses play a key role in evaluating product safety, effectiveness and efficiency, environmental ...
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Cost control

2005
Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on cost estimation or the formulation of a budget. The purpose of putting together a cost estimate or a budget is to ensure that the estimated costs of the event are known as far in advance as possible. This allows those responsible as much time as possible to optimize the constraints on the budget—by pricing ...
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Ratios for Cost Control

1993
The design of buildings takes place in phases representing a development from rough to precision planning. Estimates are made in order to test whether the result is still within the budget set by the client or developer. In this way, the decisions taken during the design phase can be quantified and expressed in monetary terms.
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The cost of dengue control

The Lancet, 2011
Francisco Antonio Bezerra Coutinho, Eduardo Massad   +1 more
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