Sentences with phrase «because access to medical care»

To have to surrender a loved and cherished member of the family to a shelter because access to medical care is beyond an individual or family's means is a situation no pet owner wants to consider.

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About 2.7 million newborns die every year, many because their mothers didn't have access to significant medical care.

They deliver at hospitals because access to appropriate medical care for themselves and their babies is their top priority.

«This is worrisome because there is extensive evidence that weight - based stigma negatively affects health, equal access to employment, earnings, education, and medical care.»

However, the authors concluded that socially isolated women fared worse because they had less access to medical care.

«This country is in great need of primary care physicians to fill the ongoing shortage, yet qualified undocumented pre-medical students are still being denied access to medical schools because of concerns regarding their status,» said Dr. Yohualli Balderas - Medina Anaya, a resident physician in the department of family medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the paper's lead author.

The lawsuit against Myriad Genetics and the University of Utah Research Foundation, which hold the patents on the genes, charged that the challenged patents are illegal and restrict both scientific research and patients» access to medical care, and that patents on human genes violate the First Amendment and patent law because genes are «products of nature.»

This is because breast cancer is diagnosed at an earlier and localised stage in nations where populations have access to medical care, and progressive improvement in treatment strategies.

Liam (Gale Hawthorne) and Josh Hutcherson (Peeta Mellark) say that, while every person stricken with Ebola in America survived, in parts of Africa the survival rate is only 20 per cent because of the access to medical care and experts.

Because children can not devote their full energies to learning when they are not in good health, Head Start would ensure access to medical care.

Because of the wonderful coverage they provide for my pet, Molly Grace has been given access to the best medical care when needed.

And access to care diminishes because physicians, hospitals, pharmaceutical sellers, and medical device manufacturers limit the scope of their activity to «low risk» services and products.

Injured workers covered under the WCA will likely have priority access to medical care and diagnostic tests because health care providers receive financial incentive to provide expedited services since the WCB pays additional fees for services performed in an accelerated time frame (see Workers» Compensation Board, Physician's Reference Guide at 11).

In this case, state - imposed deprivation occurs when an agricultural worker is injured and is forced to have long waiting times for access to health and medical care from the public health system because they are not included under the WCA.

With different vehicles, medical breakthroughs, and access to new drugs and technology, a visitor to the U.S. might be more safely covered in case of emergency than a visitor to another foreign country because the U.S. provides the same level of medical care for its citizens, as it does for its visitors.

Even travelers with healthy immune systems need to check their vaccinations before heading out because access to adequate local medical care may not be available.

Sometimes, however, living independently is not an option, because of issues such as deteriorating chronic health conditions, a medical crisis, the loss of a partner, severe mobility restrictions or lack of access to suitable care.