Sentences with phrase «lack of access»

When poor women were giving birth at home because of lack of access to hospitals, rich women were giving birth in hospitals.

So many things that lawyers want to do are limited by lack of access to capital.

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

However, consider the big picture as there may be other drawbacks, such as lack of access to federal forgiveness programs and repayment plans.

Read the full report to learn more about how lack of access to civil legal aid affects low - income people, the courts, and the state's economy.

The panelists for this briefing were chosen because they see the direct effect lack of access has on the mental health of older adults.

The main contributing factor remains a widespread lack of access to credit and capital.

There is a glaring lack of access to financial services in several parts of the world.

But their economics would really shine for isolated towns whose lack of access to central power grids has forced them to rely on dirty and costly - to - run diesel generators.

On the one hand is their straightforward lack of access to information.

This could be further complicated due to a likely lack of access to patient files and potentially no follow - up with the patient.

The extreme lack of access to pet resources for millions of people is an overlooked national crisis and a social justice issue in its own right.

This strongly suggests that the previous increase in maternal mortality was not driven by lack of access to health care, since access has not increased.

Much of humanity suffers from lack of access to low - cost energy already.

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.

This religious drift was not for lack of access: As the product of a long line of Calvinist preachers and congregants, I had inherited their severity but not their devotion.

1.35 million people in developing countries, most of them children, die every year from diarrhoeal diseases associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene and overcrowding.

On education, Mr. Diaz backed up Bronx Councilman Andy King's call for universal gifted and talented testing and programs on - site at all schools, calling the current lack of access in lower - income communities «unacceptable.»

Zehr tells the story of one crime victim complaining about lack of access to information — and she worked in the district attorney's office!

Thereafter, the main entry points within the food value chain where lack of access to energy is the dominant factor influencing food losses is discussed.

This brief and related report synthesizes findings from 143 rigorous research studies and finds that community schools can improve outcomes for all students, especially those facing lack of access to high - quality schools and out - of - school barriers to learning.

While lack of access to additional funds was labelled as one of the biggest barriers to innovation for between 16 — 20 % of SMEs, for organisations with over 200 employees only 10 % saw it is as a major challenge.102

It has been a matter of great concern among public health activists who work on child health and nutrition that the issue of malnutrition was being converted into a marketing opportunity to be addressed through products that big corporations could sell as the answer, instead of being seen as a basic lack of access to food caused by structural inequities in food distribution.

Ignoring the possibility of mass hypnosis or something straight out of an episode of the X-Files, the only explanation I can come up with is a complete lack of access to reliable information.

The results of that survey also illuminated the barriers that were impeding weathercasters from reporting local climate change stories, things like lack of access to local data and lack of time to do the necessary research.

«When you compound this with [a school's] lack of access to capital and support... you have this conundrum where you have leaders of color, with one to two schools, serving the highest - needs population, who also have the least monetary and human - capital support to deal with that challenge.

Poverty, unemployment, and a distinct lack of access to health care and other important resources create situations that require specific responses.

«The persistent lack of access to world - class educational resources and technology in far too many communities is at the heart of this issue,» Duncan wrote on the Brown Center Chalkboard, a blog of the Brookings Institution.

As you can I am sure imagine, there are many places that I find impossible to visit due to lack of access which as a creator & and an artist I find so very frustrating.

While roughly a third of its portfolio companies are in St. Louis, the fund also invests in startups located in places where founders face a similar lack of access to venture capital.

A professor is calling attention to the dismal lack of access to clean running water on the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve in Ontario — despite it being a stone's throw away from major towns and cities with fully functioning water infrastructure.

Damning judgement attacks lack of access to lawyers and inclusion of torture victims in controversial programme

De Blasio's potential lack of access to terror threats raised eyebrows in political and law - enforcement circles last year.

«You get lack of access by things that would be driving transcription,» Kuss - Duerkop says.

African Americans are more likely than whites to perceive lack of access to high - quality medical care (56 % to 41 %), God's will (47 % to 29 %), having a low income (45 % to 23 %), and not having enough education (41 % to 26 %) as extremely important causes of individuals» health problems.

The tough terrain means Global Positioning Systems can not be used and Wireless Sensor Networks are less reliable due to interference from the rock mass and lack of access points.

«Whether lack of access to healthy foods, low income, or low education is driving these processes needs to be further studied,» Kelli and colleagues concluded.

In studies of the overall U.S. population, inadequate intake of nutrients — including flavonoids — can be associated with poverty and general lack of access to fresh foods.

A recent article by Derrell Bradford identifies lack of access to experts and technical assistance as a barrier for many single - site charter schools seeking to improve or grow.

Finally, implicit in the idea of justice is that education is about ensuring that historical injustices are addressed, such as a historical lack of access to quality education faced by poor and marginalized students.

Digital innovation is likely to have an even stronger impact across Africa than in the West, simply because of the historic lack of access to books.

In others, it's quite literally lack of access to digitized content retailers that prevents e-reading from growing as it does in the US and UK.