Sentences with phrase «basic health services»

Typically, aides will help in daily personal tasks, organize doctor appointments, and perform basic health services like checking pulse and giving medication.

Furthermore, the loss of access to adequate family planning and basic health services also increases reliance on traditional or harmful methods, including unsafe termination of pregnancy.

Hewlett Foundation Grant Assists Women, Families and Low - Income Residents Affected by Hurricane Katrina Planned Parenthood Receives $ 1 Million to Provide Basic Health Services

«The implications [of the attacks] run way beyond polio,» Aylward says, because targeting health workers will deprive Pakistani children from receiving other basic health services as well.

The Associated Press reported today that the bill would limit access to or raise costs of basic health services like prenatal care, contraception, and cancer screenings.

Since 2005, this money — federal dollars passed back through the state to fund services — has paid for health care for an average of 244,000 needy women a year; with the small pot that remains, just $ 19 million this year, the Department of State Health Services estimates that just 60,000 low - income women will be able to access basic health services in 2012.

These indicators show us that agriculture and the rural world are still linked to poverty, perpetuate gaps in basic health services, in quality education and a high standard of living.

Attendees urged their business colleagues to embrace under - served markets, expand basic health services, and improve worker training as part of their core business activities.

Although most cases are easily prevented and treated, they often prove deadly when families can not access basic health services such as vaccines and antibiotic treatment.»

The WHO couldn't afford to launch a massive insecticide - spraying program and help countries build up basic health services at the same time.

NKST ran a small hospital, which at the time offered basic health services and HIV / AIDS treatment, but not comprehensive reproductive health care, as the church did not condone the use of contraception.

The measures being pushed by the extreme right in Congress would shatter the nation's family planning infrastructure and take away many women's current access to lifesaving cancer screening, annual exams, STD testing, and other basic health services.

Together, the companies touch most of the basic health services that people regularly use, providing an opportunity to benefit consumers.

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.

Chronic poverty, defined as poverty which often traps an individual for their whole lifetime and affects their children, affects individuals through hunger, illiteracy, lack of access to basic health services and political exclusion.

Activities may include first - aid training, psychosocial support, basic health services, recovering lost livelihoods or emergency preparedness activities.

Cal Fire, American Red Cross, CERT and San Diego Humane Society staff and trained volunteers led relief efforts to provide safety, water, food, basic health services, mental health services and access to insurance.

Some hospitals and healthcare centers will refuse to provide these basic health services to trans people.

For more than 40 years, CMC has brought doctors, basic health services and medical facilities into the community to serve those who need us the most.

«This vote by the U.S. Conference of Mayors reminds us very clearly that politics should never get in the way of women's access to basic health services,» said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Compounding the problem, some members of Congress propose cutting federal family planning dollars, which would disproportionately affect Planned Parenthood and our patients, depriving them of access to basic health services, including STD testing and treatment, birth control, and cancer screenings.

It should come as no surprise that if you're low income or don't have health insurance, getting access to basic health services can be difficult.

Publicly subsidized family planning services allow them to get cancer screenings, STI testing, pap tests, and other basic health services.

After CVS Health Corp. announced on Sunday that it bought Hartford, Conn. - based Aetna in a cash and stock transaction worth about $ 69 billion, it was clear the deal would change the way that basic health services are delivered in the United States.