Sentences with phrase «poor access to health services»

Increased funding is needed for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations to expand in areas where there is poor access to health services and increased burden of disease, and to grow their capacity and respond to mental health, disability and aged care needs.

Poor access to health services contributes to poor health outcomes and an increased chance of reincarceration, Megan Williams told Croakey.

Not exact matches

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

The new measure is aimed at giving poor women in particular access to reproductive health services.

Living Goods seeks to reinvent how the poor access vital goods and services, leading to significant gains in the health and wealth of families living in poverty.

Innovation and Activities Living Goods seeks to reinvent how the poor access vital goods and services, leading to significant gains in the health and wealth of families living in poverty.

Growing sectors of the populations are denied access to education, basic health services, or jobs that would allow even a precarious subsistence, The poor, the marginalized and the excluded are not significant consumers, much less players in the global market; they have no access to information highways and hardly a chance to shape any of the other significant byways of the process of capitalist globalization.

He acknowledged the health of the poorest people has not improved at the same pace as that of the richest and named access to GP services as a key factor in determining health outcomes.

«In the Senate, I want to fight for public safety and criminal justice reform, education programs, affordable housing, increased access to mental health care, economic development and opportunities, and social service reforms, especially as they affect middle class families and the working poor,» he said in a statement.

«The rapid shifts in disease burden place poor people in low - and middle - income countries at high risk of not having access to appropriate services and incurring payments for health care that push them deeper into poverty,» said Timothy Evans, Director of Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank health care that push them deeper into poverty,» said Timothy Evans, Director of Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank Group.

«Hamilton has extensive health and social services but 40 per cent of respondents felt their access to health care was either fair or poor,» said Dr. Firestone, who holds a PhD in public health.

The program targets the poorest members in a village and provides a productive asset grant, training and support, life skills coaching, temporary cash consumption support, and typically access to savings accounts and health information or services.

Perhaps the harsher weather conditions in some areas of Russia, dramatic growth of smoking women in Russia, poorer health care, and limited access to quality skin care products and services due to poorer economy makes Russian women age faster in the face than western women.

Housed in the Department of Health and Human Services, Head Start has in the past emphasized not just early education but also socialization and giving poor children and their families access to an array of nutritional, health, and social serHealth and Human Services, Head Start has in the past emphasized not just early education but also socialization and giving poor children and their families access to an array of nutritional, health, and social sServices, Head Start has in the past emphasized not just early education but also socialization and giving poor children and their families access to an array of nutritional, health, and social serhealth, and social servicesservices.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the British government today (World Population Day) have been hosting a London Summit on Family Planning, aimed at expanding access to contraception and related health services for women, particularly in poor urban communities, who want more control over the size of their families.

Along the way, we will reap multiple co-benefits such as improved air quality and health, access to modern energy services for the poor and energy security for all nations.

This is one reason why many service users with learning disabilities or in poor mental health have been unable to access direct payments.

People and communities experiencing social exclusion, unstable housing, low income, food insecurity, unemployment and poor working conditions, weak social safety nets and lack of access to health, social and legal services are shaped by a wider set of forces: economics, social policies, and politics.

But, with the introduction of the insurance - based model of health care, the presence of several unregulated private clinics will be clipped, leading to easy access of health care services even to the poorer sections of our society.»

that the Budget would be a mess for Indigenous communities, given one of the main barriers to poor Indigenous health outcomes was lack of access to services.

Deputy Chair of the Government's Indigenous Advisory Council Dr Ngaire Brown told the Australian Financial Review that the Budget would be a mess for Indigenous communities, given one of the main barriers to poor Indigenous health outcomes was lack of access to services.

Participants referred to existing evidence that indigenous peoples affected by HIV have a long and enduring history of mistrust of health services, which results in poor access to health care, late testing for HIV and poor or no care and support for people living with HIV.

The impact of this disadvantage is mediated within a context in which indigenous Australians have poorer access to adequate housing, a healthy physical environment, and good health and related community services.

As expected, when compared with participants living with others, those living alone were more likely to report (any) depressive symptoms when living in neighbourhoods with poorer access to civic / institutional destinations, retail, food / eating outlets, public transport stops and health clinics / services, lower levels of crowdedness and fewer people on the streets (table 4).

The needs analysis also highlights an «overwhelming need» for more mental health services across the PHN, especially for the Torres Strait and Cape regions, where people «have no access to acute mental health beds and poor access to mental health professionals».

Almost nowhere in any post-Budget announcements have we seen any reference to the most disadvantaged members of our community, and the impact that budget cuts will have on those who are already excluded from health services because of barriers such as poor access to primary health, lack of access to prevention programs, poor health literacy, and most of all, cost.

«During the settlement process, refugees share the difficulties associated with adjusting to a new and very different culture, the limited access to information, the disruption of their lives and the schooling of their children, the issues of poor health and difficulty in accessing appropriate and affordable housing, the pressure of adjusting to a new environment, the difficulties in entering the employment market and the relative lack of understanding of their communities by Australian service providers.

He helped expand access to reproductive health services wherever the need was greatest — in rural communities and among the young and the poor.

Furthermore, it contributes little to efforts to meet some of the most pressing challenges facing our health system — poor access to dental services and mental health care for many in the community and the prevention and ongoing management of chronic disease.

The event recognises that culturally diverse and Aboriginal communities are disproportionately impacted by viral hepatitis for a range of reasons including inadequate access to health services, poor health literacy, and broader socio - economic disadvantage.

On social - emotional measures, foster children in the NSCAW study tended to have more compromised functioning than would be expected from a high - risk sample.43 Moreover, as indicated in the previous section, research suggests that foster children are more likely than nonfoster care children to have insecure or disordered attachments, and the adverse long - term outcomes associated with such attachments.44 Many studies of foster children postulate that a majority have mental health difficulties.45 They have higher rates of depression, poorer social skills, lower adaptive functioning, and more externalizing behavioral problems, such as aggression and impulsivity.46 Additionally, research has documented high levels of mental health service utilization among foster children47 due to both greater mental health needs and greater access to services.

He will have been a close observer of the well - known health service deficits borne by rural people, including the relatively poor access to health professionals, particularly those in more specialised disciplines.

For example, given that Indigenous peoples» poorer health status would indicate a greater need for primary health care services, it is disturbing that in 2004 it was estimated that Indigenous peoples enjoyed 40 % of the per capita access of the non-Indigenous population to primary health care provided by mainstream general practitioners.