Sentences with phrase «limited health infrastructure»

For example, frequent travel across porous borders, poor nations with limited health infrastructure and no prior experience with Ebola, a history of regional conflict, and local customs (e.g. burial practices) contribute to how quickly and easily outbreaks can spread.

Not exact matches

On 10th November 2010 the ORR began criminal proceedings against Network Rail Infrastructure Limited and Jarvis Rail Limited for breaches of health and safety law which caused the Potters Bar derailment on 10th May 2002 in which seven people were killed and many more seriously injured.

Many are poor with limited access to air conditioning and other infrastructure to combat the health risks of rising temperatures.

This special issue of Science focuses on diverse areas where public health can be improved by making better use of the resources we have in our grasp, ranging from tailoring engineering projects to meet the needs of material - and infrastructure - limited regions, to building a surveillance network for the detection of drug resistance, to empowering women.

He adds that taking this approach toward data sets in disaster - prone places such as Africa and India — where technology, infrastructure, and access to water and health services is limited but many people have access to cell phones — could help create better contingency plans.

This is difficult for any disease but is particularly challenging for diseases that are endemic in low - and middle - income countries with limited health systems and research infrastructure.

But in West Africa and other areas where public health resources and even basic infrastructure are limited, real - time genome sequencing and analysis can speed the response by telling health officials where to initiate contact tracing, add hospital beds, quarantine those infected and implement other infection controls.

Constraints on available funding include discretionary spending caps that limit available funds as well as competing priorities outside of the education arena in areas like infrastructure and health.

In order to weigh the expected costs and benefits in a world where we have limited resources and must make trade - offs (e.g. lots of intermittent wind power at the cost of less health care, transport or communications infrastructure, or even simple holidays and bottle sof beer on a hot day).

Fortis Health Care has acquired 51 % economic interest in Fortis Hospotel Limited by way of acquiring compulsorily convertible debentures from Fortis Global Healthcare Infrastructure Pte Ltd..

It is of limited value to say a particular condition or factor is important unless it is clear what the health target is, how it is to be achieved, indicative expenditure required (both recurrent and capital), program, workforce and infrastructure requirements to provide the necessary services and the monitoring, evaluation and management processes required.