Sentences with phrase «limited access to medical care»

So they looked at people who'd been born in states with high infant mortality rates — an indicator of social problems like poverty and limited access to medical care.

«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.

Half the population has limited access to medical care and there's a critical shortage of doctors.

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Traditionally mobile clinics have mainly catered to those in, say, poorer communities around the country where access to health care is limited, cumbersome or people are simply unable to get time off to visit medical professionals.

Seven in 10 of the world's poor live in remote or rural areas, where access to medical services is sharply limited or not available at all: 5 billion people can't reach or afford essential surgical care, from emergency caesarian sections to cancer surgery.

Diseases once thought to be rare or exotic in the United States are gaining a presence and getting new attention from medical researchers who are probing how immigration, limited access to care and the impacts of climate change are influencing their spread.

The ACO will map services to Medicaid patients» physical location and medical needs, while addressing psychosocial barriers that often limit access to high - quality care.

Limited access to advanced coursework, medical care, food and employment opportunities also hurts rural schools, according to a report by AASA, The School Superintendents Association, and The Rural School and Community Trust.

She knows the obstacles students face in their own learning: food and housing insecurity, limited medical and dental care, lack of access to transportation and technology, the list goes on.

Found in overcrowded and untidy pens with limited access to food or water, 116 dogs, including Huskies, Chihuahuas, and Poodles, were found having several ailments and untreated medical conditions that called for immediate veterinary care.

Fripps has access to good medical care through Community Veterinary Services at Mississippi State University, but college students on a limited budget must consider how they will pay for routine veterinary care.

Patients with rare diseases will find Chaoulli of limited help, however, as their access to health care is impeded not by legislation that prohibits them from accessing certain services, but rather, by government inaction (e.g. not paying for necessary medical treatments or procedures).

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.

Although this change to the Workers» Compensation medical treatment limits would seem to provide greater access to medical care for injured New Yorkers, it actually has had the opposite effect.

Specific examples of the abuse of domestic workers cited by Mr Ewins in his report include physical and sexual violence, threats, psychological, emotional and verbal violence, isolation, food deprivation, sleep deprivation, denial of private life and intimacy, excessive working hours, confiscation of identity documents, non-payment of wages or grossly inadequate wages, no access to health or medical care, limited freedom of movement, threat of deportation, and assertions by the employer of their impunity.

The MIG will continue and will limit most injured people to a total of $ 3,500 for all medical and rehabilitation services and no access to attendant care benefits

As part of the recent changes the Ontario government has created a category of injury known as a «Minor Injury» which will limit a person's accident benefits claim to $ 3,500 in medical and rehabilitation benefits with no access to attendant care or other benefits.

Even if you are not terminally ill, under some circumstances, you may have limited access if you are in a position where you would require extensive medical care over a long period of time to stay alive.

The current legal ambiguities as to what medical assistants can be delegated are limiting access to health care for Washington residents and resulting in inefficiencies in health care delivery.

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Also up for discussion will be barriers to access to care in remote areas, including out - of - touch ideas about scope of practice, and restrictive state - based Drugs & Poisons Acts that limit practice through urban - centric medical models.

Unfortunately, severe damage to Puerto Rico's medical facilities — paired with the federal government's historical underinvestment in Medicaid — has limited children's access to the care they need.