Sentences with phrase «low access to care»

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Yes, Danes have a stable government, low levels of public corruption, and access to high - quality education and health care.

This unique integrated model increases access to quality care, delivers better health outcomes and lowers overall health care costs.

CVS began as a pharmacy chain, acquired pharmacy benefit management (PBM) capacity, and added numerous Minute Clinics to provide easy access and low - cost usual care, then discontinued the sale of tobacco products as it changed its name to CVS Health.

Many people living in rural, low - income communities, or on tribal lands have no access to care at all.

Wonder which state has the lowest crime rate, ranks high in environmental quality, parks and recreation and access to health care?

Lack of access to even urgent dental care for many people with low income, seniors and others is a problem that could be solved with a «public option» for dental insurance, according to a new report...

For example, it may be increasing access to essential medication by having lower prices than competitors and a convenient delivery model, and it may be improving quality of care by building trust with its customers.

* Funding certainty for CSRs: Cost - sharing reduction subsidies play a pivotal role in ensuring access to health care services for very low - income enrollees, helping these individuals better afford their co-pays, deductibles, and other out - of - pocket costs.

This is one of the ways that efficient European public systems and U.S. accountable care organizations (and HMOs) are achieving lower costs and good access to timely services.

My last point and Im out... Throughout our great nations history... we always found a way to fight through national issues and come up with solutions... Giving the problems we have now to people in the 50's and 60's... and they may actually come up with a solution... if you earnestly care about making a change... start at the lowest levels of government... go do something... find out costs... expenses... how to get more health care to people... do things like that... quit waiting on the government to provide all the answers... its not the way this country was founded... and not the way we get through problems... If you or ur family does nt have insurance... get a job that can provide you that... instead of hoping the government will do so... If you or ur family lacks access to education... move to an area that excels at it... education is invaluable... Do something about your problem... and quit waiting for the next big lotto...

Benefits for approximately 1.5 million small - scale farmers and workers around the world include: • A fair price on products • Improved access to low - or no - interest loans • Technical assistance for building infrastructure • Communications systems • Collectively - owned transport & processing equipment • Better health care & education • Training & skill diversification

Still, at least I have access to midwife care; many women, particularly low - income women, do not.

Homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage in the lowest risk women receiving care from highly trained midwives (often two) and liberal access to transfer.

Although uncommon, access to obstetrician - led care is possible when low - risk women have a strong preference for giving birth under the supervision of an obstetrician.

The need to ensure universal access to care in this provincial context may have fostered an environment where detailed discussions about options and preferences are sometimes deferred, or are a lower priority, because of time constraints.

2009 — 2010 FRAC leads efforts to broaden low - income children's access to healthy school lunch and breakfast, summer and afterschool meals, and child care food in the child nutrition reauthorization process.

Her primary issue areas included low - income access to health care, environmental justice, criminal justice and grassroots community organizing.

Consider how care workers who are not currently earning above the Lower Earnings Limit might be able to cheaply access the National Insurance contributions and benefit system.

Yes, online applications like Twitter and social networking sites have immense potential to raise high the low and bring down the mighty, but the tools ultimately don't care who uses them: dictators and demagogues have access to the same technologies as democrats and and the dispossessed, and they probably have more resources to put behind them.

The neighborhoods surrounding Interfaith are made up of lower - income, non-white families that typically have less access to primary and preventive care, which forces a greater reliance on the hospital.

«Not only will HR 3962 help working men and women better secure affordable, quality health care, but it will also help small businesses access health care with lower rates and stable pricing from year to year», said Hughes.

«Chris Gibson has consistently taken votes to undermine and threaten women's health and to limit access to affordable reproductive health care for low - income women.»

The plan also would completely eliminate the ACA's expansion of Medicaid which would leave an additional 11 million low - income adults without health insurance and no access to health care.»

«We know from past experience, that the supplemental funding from Komen helps women who would not otherwise be eligible for free or low cost screenings, to access care when they need it most.»

They say the model will provide the kind of support - access to health care, after - school programs, educational opportunities for parents - that will enable students from low - income backgrounds to be more successful.

«Despite the mayor's restorations, the child care system at large is still under siege, with more than 14,000 child care slots lost in the last four years, and 7,000 fewer children from low - income families able to access care next year.»

«From a policy perspective, this study should encourage legislators and regulators to consider efforts to safely expand access to midwifery care for low - risk pregnancies,» she notes.

The authors say their findings raise the possibility that greater access to midwifery care, which is low in the United States, might enhance perinatal care and lower costs for low - risk women.

African - Americans» lower rates of eye care are believed to stem from less access and more barriers to care, fewer eye care providers with practices situated in their communities, and a lack of awareness of their high - risk status for vision loss and how routine preventive care could reduce that risk.

Reich's findings suggest women with more time, education, and resources claim greater freedom to reject public health interventions, which potentially carries consequences for undervaccinated children from lower income backgrounds who may not have access to care.

Low - income parents are more likely to say schools should teach students how to use the health care system — perhaps, Clark notes, because these parents face challenges themselves in accessing health care.

This so - called urban health advantage is usually attributed to better access to health care and improved overall infrastructure, such as clean water, safety and education.But many of the globe's cities are already bursting and actually offer a far worse quality of life to those on the lower end of the income spectrum, whose plights can get overshadowed in large - scale statistics.

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

The association between higher Medicaid reimbursements for office visits and increased likelihood of receiving cancer screenings may reflect barriers in access to primary care physicians and other providers for Medicaid enrollees in states with lower reimbursements.

«MSF and DNDi are working together to increase access to care and treatment for HCV patients in key low - and middle - income countries, through the STORM - C project financed by MSF's Transformational Investment Capacity (TIC) initiative.

That's partly because traffic speed and certain environmental effects are easier to measure than social - justice considerations, such as access to job opportunities or health care for low - income groups, or balancing the interests of pedestrians and cyclists with those of motorists.

Research shows that lower - income and minority families often have less access to, among other things, health care and quality education.

«The rapid shifts in disease burden place poor people in low - and middle - income countries at high risk of not having access to appropriate services and incurring payments for health care that push them deeper into poverty,» said Timothy Evans, Director of Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank Group.

Possible reasons for advanced stage diagnosis among minorities may include lower screening rates, lower income levels, and reduced access to education and health care.

According to researchers in California, African Americans» participation in colorectal cancer screening is low and the use of colonoscopy infrequent despite similar access to care across races in a Veterans Affairs healthcare system.

Such an expansion would particularly benefit residents of medically underserved urban and rural communities who otherwise lack ready access to primary care services, especially adults with serious and chronic health conditions that can be cared for in primary care settings, women of childbearing age, children and the low - income elderly.

Medication non-adherence is also a persistent problem in low - resource settings, where there may not be reliable access to health care and the full course of a medication.

Zoeckler also says that initiatives will be taken to better inform low - wage workers of local resources that are available to them to help them access health care and to also help them meet their basic living needs.

These regional differences could be due to lower socioeconomic status of veterans in those areas and less access to care, say the researchers.

Overall, having access to the tool was not associated with reduction in outpatient spending, and patients did not switch from more expensive outpatient hospital - based care to lower - cost settings.

In one of the first studies of its kind, appearing in JAMA, a team of researchers from Harvard Medical School found that access to a price transparency tool was not associated with lower health care spending.

Our study, along with prior studies, supports the notion that «cognitive reserve» resulting from early - life and lifelong education and cognitive stimulation may be a potent strategy for the primary prevention of dementia in both high - and low - income countries around the world.21 However, it should be noted that the relationships among education, brain biology, and cognitive function are complex and likely multidirectional; for instance, a number of recent population - based studies have shown genetic links with level of educational attainment, 22,23 and with the risk for cognitive decline in later life.24 Higher levels of educational attainment are also associated with health behaviors (eg, physical activity, diet, and smoking), more cognitively - complex occupations, and better access to health care, all of which may play a role in decreasing lifetime dementia risk.

Fourth, dismally low public spending on health has crippled the public sector and created large barriers in quality and access — the total expenditure on health in India fell from 4 · 5 % of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2004 - 05 to 4 · 0 % of GDP in 2013 - 14, and most of this expenditure was out - of - pocket leading to catastrophic health care expenditure for millions.

«More importantly, the lower level of health care access and utilization among this group is likely to impact follow - up care of these patients and may make them more susceptible to diminished quality of life.»

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) The Health Reources and Services Administration (HRSA) works to to improve and expand access to quality health care for all and assure the availability of quality health care to low income, uninsured, isolated, vulnerable and special needs populations.