Sentences with phrase «for rural populations»

We believe investigating the effects of internet - delivered treatments are particularly relevant for rural populations, 27 as these communities typically struggle to access counselling opportunities, 28 and the rates of problematic gambling are sometimes higher for rural persons than the Albertan average.2 Furthermore, given that most telemedicine applications in Alberta are focused on delivering training or non-clinical services, 28 and that the government of Alberta may legalise on - line gambling in the near future, gambling harm and treatment need are likely to increase for rural and remote Albertans.29 Also, as gambling and the internet are ubiquitous phenomena in western countries, this study may be relevant to other rural and remote jurisdictions.

Nearly all municipal and industrial wastewater is discharged into rivers and creeks without treatment, reducing clean water availability for rural populations.

Milk is also far less important in the Japanese diet than it was for the rural populations around Chernobyl.

Examples include changing policies to encourage older adults to remain part of the workforce for longer (e.g., removing tax disincentives to work past retirement age), emphasising low - cost disease prevention and early detection rather than treatment (eg, reducing salt intake and increasing uptake of vaccines), making better use of technology (eg, mobile clinics for rural populations), and training health - care staff in the management of multiple chronic conditions.

These low sum assured are perfect for the rural population who have lesser expenses and still need an insurance cover.

Edelweiss Tokio Life Dhan Nivesh Bima Yojana is a traditional Endowment micro insurance plan designed for rural population which provides life insurance coverage and savings facility at low rates.

Crafted with a premium paying term of 5 years especially for the rural population who seek life insurance protection.

Edelweiss Tokio Life Raksha Kavach is a traditional Term micro insurance plan designed for rural population which provides life insurance coverage at minimal rates to take care of the protection needs of the lower income groups.

Not exact matches

The city where I live has an extremely diverse population, surprisingly so for a small - town rural area.

Flexible work is a proven solution for helping the rural population gain access to valuable employment options.

For most types of growth, the population density of a business owner's region (urban, rural, or suburban) didn't have any impact on their growth plans.

First, we used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural - Urban scale (also called Beale Codes), from 1, for counties in metropolitan areas with 1 million or more in population through 9, for counties where there is no community larger than 2,500 and the county is not adjacent to a metropolitan area.

Icici has unveiled a mobile app specifically designed for India's huge rural population, providing a host of banking services as well as useful information such as crop prices.

Eliade explains Cosmic Christianity of the rural population as being dominated by «nostalgia for a Nature sanctified by the presence of Jesus».

Figures from the Office for National Statistics calculate that the current population of rural England is 9.3 million, and that it continues to grow by around 50,000 people each year.

In his book The Nature Principle, Richard Louv says for the first time in history, more than half of the world's population lives in cities, rather than rural environments.

The inclusion of isolated population segments into the dominant economy created permanent disruptions in the moral economy of rural life — social upheavals that generated potential recruits for sectarian movements.

To meet different human needs, by 2050 it must simultaneously produce far more food for a population expected to reach about 9.6 billion, provide economic opportunities for the hundreds of millions of rural poor who depend on...

Shane McIntyre, national director of rural and agribusiness at Colliers International, said there were numerous factors that would «ensure the future of beef in the medium term» including an insatiable global appetite for protein, population growth and a wealthier world.

Even with strong expansion of the country's middle class, a large proportion of India's population remains poor, and being able to afford products is still a major concern for many in the rural economy.

Another option proposed for the area was afforestation, but in view of the high density of rural population and the fertile soils this was dismissed and another alternative was sought.

Furthermore, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) project further 16 per cent rural population growth by 2028.

Orphanages are located in urban centers; orphans and abandoned children in rural areas (who account for around 85 % of the total orphan population) do not have access to these state - run institutions.

Rural communities are much more likely than urban populations to talk about the desire to keep their communities rooted, for there to be opportunities for their children to live and work close to where their parents live.

But, only about 2 % of the population of the United States is employed in farming, and even if you have a substantial multiplier for people who economically benefit when farmers are doing well, this is still only a modest share of the rural population in the United States.

While many residents at Tuesday night's Southold Town Board meeting agreed that having affordable housing for the area's workers and retired population is important, others said they feared how a proposal to increase the number of units allowed in an affordable housing development will change the North Fork's rural character.

He'd been in office for a decade, presiding over a rural area with dairy farms and a sizable Amish population.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

The area from which the cases of cardiac arrests were drawn is a collection of urban, suburban and rural counties that account for approximately a quarter of North Carolina's population but included all EMS agencies.

Even in rich countries, proposals for «rewilding» — which I strongly support — only stand a chance of success in areas where rural populations have collapsed and formerly subsidised unproductive farms can be shut down to allow them to revert to nature.

These cats, especially if left to proliferate, are frequently considered to be pests in both rural and urban areas, and may be blamed for devastating the bird, reptile and mammal populations, and digging up people's gardens.

+ / - 62 %: rural population directly dependent on wild nature and its services for survival (the most of any continent)

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

This disparity is ascribed to the fact that rural populations tend to engage in more physically demanding jobs, for instance in construction, agriculture, forestry and mining, which they are unable to pursue after their cancer treatment.

The types of manual labor available in rural areas rarely offer disability benefits and therefore increase the impact of cancer diagnosis for this population.

And paper will still be the only option for some 10 % of the U.S. population living in rural and remote areas or without mailable addresses.

In a statement, NIH Director Francis Collins commended Ruffin for his «extraordinary service» and called him «a tireless champion» who «has done everything in his power to bring attention to and find solutions for the unequal burden of illness affecting minority, rural, and poor populations in this country.»

Although the initiative reached a limited geographic population, the HER Salt Lake team hopes to take this study further to increase access for women through provider training and stocking at community health centers and rural clinics.

«The great majority of the rural population who grow maize — rain - fed agriculture — for their own consumption are the poorest of the poor and lack the means to invest in the very expensive and risky migration venture.»

For her doctoral thesis, Ellen Blommaert looked for answers in Winam, a rural area of western Kenya where HIV / AIDS wreaked havoc among the populatiFor her doctoral thesis, Ellen Blommaert looked for answers in Winam, a rural area of western Kenya where HIV / AIDS wreaked havoc among the populatifor answers in Winam, a rural area of western Kenya where HIV / AIDS wreaked havoc among the population.

High ozone concentrations typically occur outside of the cities and represent a risk factor for the health of rural population as well as for agricultural production.

The experiment was carried out between April and June 2013 using urban and rural nest - box populations of great tits located in southern Sweden (see [17] and electronic supplementary material for details).

How can countries avoid food insecurity and even displacement of rural populations given its consequences for human security?

And, interestingly, all the tubers and gourds that rural populations eat also provide a very important type of food for those bugs, called resistant starch, something that only the bacteria in our guts can digest and utilize, and it makes them thrive.

It's most compelling, and often frustrating, as a portrait of a rural Inuit population that relies on sustainable seal hunting for food, community and economic survival.

The organization looks at each state's rural population and gauges how «urgent» it is for policy makers to explicitly address each state's rural education issues.

The UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy — supported by the Government of the People's Republic of China and dedicated to literacy work benefitting rural populations and out - of - school youth, particularly girls and women — is awarded to laureates in South Africa, India, and Senegal: The South African Department of Basic Education for its Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign; the Jan Shikshan Sansthan organization in Kerala, India, for its programme, Vocational Skill Development for Sustainable Development, and the Directorate of Literacy and National Languages in Senegal for its National Education Programme for Illiterate Youth and Adults through ICTs.

And it's true that some of the teachers in rural areas might not have the same academic qualifications — particularly in a place like Oaxaca, which for all its tourist delights of its capital is one of Mexico's poorest states, with a large indigenous population and substandard infrastructure.

Moreover, the demographic characteristics of the rural student population continue to shift, with rural schools becoming increasingly diverse and serving larger populations of students that schools have historically not served effectively (i.e., the students for whom performance is described in terms of achievement gaps).

There will be extra funding for «sparsity», such as rural areas and small schools, places with a high level of mobility in its school population and funding where there are sharp increases in pupil numbers.