Setting up nurse practitioner clinics to serve 20000 newborn

Setting up nurse practitioner clinics to serve 20,000 newborns in Georgia would cost $6 million. This program would increase life expectancy at birth from 75.1 years to 75.3 years. How many life years would be gained? What is the cost per life year? Should this program be started?

Solution:

4000 Life years would be gained if life expectancy increased from 75.1 years to 75.3 years.