Sentences with phrase «limited access to healthcare»

According to a study published in 2016 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, blacks «are significantly more likely than other Americans to live in high - poverty neighborhoods — neighborhoods characterized by poor schools and limited access to healthcare, jobs, and beneficial social networks,» even as the poverty gap between black and white neighborhoods continues to close.

These toxic stress - induced changes in brain structure and function mediate, at least in part, the well - described relationship between adversity and altered life - course trajectories (see Fig 1).4, 6 A hyper - responsive or chronically activated stress response contributes to the inflammation and changes in immune function that are seen in those chronic, noncommunicable diseases often associated with childhood adversity, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cirrhosis, type II diabetes, depression, and cardiovascular disease.4, 6 Impairments in critical SE, language, and cognitive skills contribute to the fractured social networks often associated with childhood adversity, like school failure, poverty, divorce, homelessness, violence, and limited access to healthcare.4, 19,58 — 60 Finally, behavioral allostasis, or the adoption of potentially maladaptive behaviors to deal or cope with chronic stress, begins to explain the association between childhood adversity and unhealthy lifestyles, like alcohol, tobacco, and substance abuse, promiscuity, gambling, and obesity.4, 6,61 Taken together, these 3 general classes of altered developmental outcomes (unhealthy lifestyles, fractured social networks, and changes in immune function) contribute to the development of noncommunicable diseases and encompass many of the morbidities associated epidemiologically with childhood adversity.4, 6

The need is even greater in North Carolina, a state with a huge rural population and limited access to healthcare services.

Because of the remote nature of some of the islands, there is limited access to healthcare for many residents.

It's estimated that there are 39 million carriers of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa and many of those people live in areas where there is limited access to healthcare.

The indigenous population is cornered by many threats to their lives and livelihoods, including military violence, limited access to healthcare, forced displacement as a result of the mining industry, and an increase in migrant workers from Java and elsewhere.

This underdeveloped, agrarian region is known for a subsistence lifestyle, high rates of malnutrition and limited access to healthcare, and is representative of many tropical regions where 40 % of the worlds births occur,

«UK aid is making a vital difference to the lives of many of the world's poorest and most marginalised people, including those who are visually impaired and those with limited access to healthcare.

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Therapeutic itineraries can help pinpoint the weak joints in a given healthcare system, the barriers and bottlenecks that delay care or limit access to it.

This left entire communities underdeveloped and in disrepair with the people living in them having limited access to necessities like banking, healthcare, retail and even groceries.

On his part Mr. Charles Darku, Managing Director of Tullow Ghana Limited at the inauguration of the block said access to quality healthcare delivery forms a core part of Tullow's social investment programmes.

«Self - administered treatment for keloid scars can reduce the economic burden on the healthcare system and provide a treatment option for patients who have limited access to medical care,» comments Professor Jeffrey Karp from Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, US, an expert on medical device design who was not involved in this study.

The studies, both out of Brazil, measure how air pollution lowers fertility in men and can complicate pregnancies in women — problems likely to be compounded by the rapid urbanization taking place in the developing world where access to healthcare is much more limited.

The so called «treatment gap» is a function of the disinclination of the afflicted to submit for treatment, an under diagnosing of the disorder by healthcare providers, and the limited availability and access to state - of - the - art treatments.