Sentences with phrase «including lack of access»

Poor school - functioning can reflect many life experiences, including lack of access to appropriate health care.

But behind this aromatic export lies a community of farmers and families that face huge daily challenges — including lack of access to safe water and widespread deforestation of their land.

2) They don't consider the fact that many of the study participants who ate a high carbohydrate diet were also living in poverty and therefore had higher mortality risk from a number of other factors including lack of access to medical care, and malnutrition.

Addressing the audience in the aftermath of the discovery of high levels of lead in the water system of Flint, Michigan, Edwards framed his presentation in terms of water infrastructure inequality in the United States, including lack of access to both adequate quantities of water and to water of safe quality.

In 2013, the Department of Labor announced it had uncovered «evidence of apparent and potential violations» of labor standards outlined in the Dominican Republic - Central American Free Trade Agreement in the company's farms, including lack of access to drinking water, 12 - hour work days, seven - day work weeks, employment of minors and overtime abuses.

Small business owners here aren't without their challenges, including a lack of access to the capital they need.

Other challenges he cited include lack of access to capital and a lack of business networks, two components often essential in expansion.

Issues in equity and desegregation negatively impact student success in numerous ways to include a lack of access and opportunity to gifted programs and advanced coursework, low expectations, disproportionate student discipline, and unequal resource distribution.

These include the lack of access to affordable long - term capital, high commercial risks, and non-financial risks such as capacity gaps.

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In addition to the difficulty that many potential business owners face in accessing capital, aboriginal people have unique challenges to securing financing including legislation prohibiting the use of on - reserve assets as collateral, lack of local financial institutions to work with, and lack of access to angel investment or venture capital.

Those policies include giving access to free land to select businesses (there is no land ownership in China), offering below - market loans, the near total lack of environmental standards, and policies that suppress wage growth.

Poverty has various manifestations, including lack of income and productive resources sufficient to ensure sustainable livelihoods; hunger and malnutrition; ill - health; limited or lack of access to education and other basic services; increased morbidity and mortality from illness; homelessness and inadequate housing; unsafe environments; and social discrimination and exclusion.

What is also of grave concern to AIMS Ireland is the number of failures at national level identified in the report including timely access to maternity services, inadequate staffing levels for safe care, a maternity care model that hasn't been revised in 59 years despite numerous national and international reports and recommendations, a lack of accountability and governance, an absence of reviews of clinical practices in units and the lack of a national maternity services strategy, all of which we have seen recommended on previous inquests without reform.

[7] The theses have variously included postulations of selfishness (both through arguments of relative unwillingness to self - sacrifice for a political cause as well as selfishness along rural / urban and class divides, most notably the disinterest of middle class Africans to engage in political demonstration), nationalism (manifested through the fear of being called an imperialist), illiteracy and lack of access to technology, and forgetfulness of «Black Africa.»

Care deficiencies include a lack of care planning, poor case management, inadequate access to nutritional information or food at appropriate times; insufficient treatment review and blood glucose monitoring; poor understanding of medication and inadequate access to preventative screening services such as foot care and retinal screening..

«The poor performance of industry and the business sector in general, could also be attributed to other challenges they faced, including, but not limited to, lack of access to finance, high interest rates, an unstable exchange rate, high import duties on raw materials and machinery, poor facilitation of import and export trade, particularly at our ports, inadequate and poor quality of raw materials for industrial processing, a poorly developed domestic trade infrastructure, lack of effective collaboration between research institutions and industry, limited access to serviced land for industrial production activities and poor standards of regulation and certification.»

Stebbins said the lack of action here is the main cause for a spate of New York City hospital closures and a lack of access to care in a number of upstate counties, including 11 that have no OB / GYN services.

SOL also represented a community response with sense of urgency to find reachable solutions to pressing issues facing the Latino community, including the hostile political climate, crisis of affordable housing, threats to immigrants rights, low graduation rates and lack of access to higher education, and lack of job opportunities.

That review also noted an unprecedented lack of cooperation by the city's Law Department — which reports to the mayor — including redacting relevant documents and blocking full access to City Hall computers.

The problems cited include employees having access to select agents they were unauthorized to work with; one faculty member performing a recombinant DNA experiment with a toxin, even though the experiment had not gained the necessary CDC approval; workers lacking the appropriate protective gear; three missing vials of brucella; and three individuals whose blood registered elevated levels of the bacterium and select agent Coxiella burnetii, which causes Q fever, a normally treatable disease.

«In rural settings, there are often barriers to health services that women face, including stigma, cultural concerns of confidentiality and trust, lack of anonymity, and lack of access and providers.»

There were several factors contributing to the increased risk, including not only the desert and more equatorial latitudes, but also the length of sunlight exposure day to day, and, among many service members, a lack of training regarding the dangers of sun exposure and limited access to sunscreen.

The NIH has established the HeLa Genome Data Access Working Group, which includes members of Henrietta Lack's family.

Food insecurity, lack of access to health care (including international food aid), and social, cultural, and economic class, all play a major role in explaining the prevalence of under - nutrition.

Major reasons include lack of universal access, unequal treatment, and underinvestment in public health and social welfare.

«Random Access Memories» lacks the magic the duo's previous albums all have; though it's consistent in sound and includes a few great moments, overall it's trying too hard to sound arty without any kind of substance, unfortunately.

While the transfer on this release is good and is actually one of VCI's better presentations to date, the lack of extras, including the ones they had access to before, means that you'll be missing out on some other material.

These reasons include (i) the fact that South Africa has become the largest recipient of individual asylum - seekers in the world; (ii) asylum being lacking in many respects, and (iii) the huge influx of applications from individuals intent on abusing the asylum management system.29 This is a rationale behind disadvantaging genuine refugees and asylum - seekers from accessing national resources and / or not being afforded effective protection that South Africa committed itself to achieve.30

In one of the nation's largest school districts, Clark County, Nevada, which includes Las Vegas, far too many students — especially particularly poor and minority students — lack access to a high - quality school.

Issues in rural schools can include fewer resources for students and teachers; lack of access to professional development and student training opportunities; community isolation; students having the same teachers for multiple subjects and grade levels; and fewer extracurricular activities.

These indicators might include lack of school counselors, or inadequate access to advanced coursework or a richer curriculum.

A variety of factors have limited the use of technology, including limited access, a lack of knowledge and training related to hardware and software, and a lack of expectations for use in social studies (Ehman & Glenn, 1990).

Overview For young people involved in the justice system, navigating a pathway into and through postsecondary education and the workforce is often met with a range of barriers including social stigmatization arising from court involvement, lack of access to resources

In addition to living in poverty, minority children face disadvantages that include living with one parent (as 65 percent of Black children do) and lacking access to preschool (as 53 percent of Hispanic children do).

Moving to the front row, life - easing highlights include a giant bin between the front seats, well - placed cupholders, heated and cooled front seats, plenty of easy - access space for personal items, power and USB ports, plus mostly intuitive climate and infotainment controls (the lack of a proper volume knob continues to bedevil several current Honda models).

The two issues cited most often were equity concerns about lack of Internet access at home and the fear of teachers not wanting to go digital, including teachers not comfortable or effective with digital learning.

While it has a slower processor and lacks a Retina Display, the iPad Mini does have the same basic features of the full - sized iPad, including access to Siri.

Providing PlayBook users access to Google's Android Market would fill a glaring hole that analysts claimed RIM must address for the tablet to gain traction against the competition: access to a big swath of applications and content that RIM's Blackberry App World, which currently includes only 20,000 applications, lacks.

This definition includes legal work affecting broad areas of public concern including the legal rights of consumers, the elderly, minorities, the poor, and groups whose legal rights are not otherwise adequately represented and who traditionally lack access to the courts.

Why we like it: Aside from the lack of annual fees and the 5 % cash back bonus on rotating categories, the Discover It card offers plenty of other features for card members, including free access to your FICO score each month and the Freeze It security measure, which allows you to turn your card on or off whenever you like.

For the purpose of this survey, we did not include access to the very important OVMA Pet Overpopulation Fund as despite good veterinary participation in the program, the fund often lacks money to approve surgeries in a timely manner.

Major reasons include lack of universal access, unequal treatment, and underinvestment in public health and social welfare.

Despite their lack of legal access, companion pets can have life - changing — even life - saving — impacts on people, including veterans.

Cold weather related health problems, among others, include frostbite, severe hypothermia, dehydration from lack of access to unfrozen fresh water, and poisoning from antifreeze and ice melting products.

Major reasons include lack of universal access, unequal treatment, and underinvestment in public health and social welfare.

Typical examples include: the expectation of high return on investment (short payback period); high capital costs and long project development times for some measures; lack of access to capital for energy efficiency improvements and feedstock / fuel change; fair market value for cogenerated electricity to the grid; and costs / lack of awareness of need for control of HFC leakage.

I've been told by plenty of folks — including two former US negotiators — that I shouldn't complain about the lack of access, because it's the closed - door meetings where things really get done.

She found that she adjusted easily to work in developing countries (including Cuba and Guatemala), in part because the «third world» conditions she encountered − like problems with access to clean water and sanitation systems, and lack of other infrastructure − were not far removed from the conditions in Attawapiskat.

Yet, on the other hand, it lacks courage and it is at times eager to include restrictive interpretations of the Strasbourg Court, for example with regard to the use of legal powers of compulsion to gain access to evidence.

It creates a range of barriers for accessing justice, including most obviously a lack of resources for obtaining legal advice and representation.