Sentences with phrase «make vulnerable populations»

While the bill has wide political support and a handful of celebrity endorsements, many sex workers and actual advocates for trafficking victims have spoken out against it, arguing that it will make vulnerable populations less safe.

You may want to rely on the youth, but I suspect that if you do this you will only make vulnerable populations more vulnerable.

Not exact matches

«[I] t appears that the effort to restructure the Medicaid program will have the effect of making significant reductions in a program that provides services to our most vulnerable populations, and already pays providers significantly less than the cost of providing care,» wrote AHA president and CEO Richard Pollack.

«All of these things combine to make the population vulnerable, and then it's the end of the year.

They help thousands of homeless and youth victims of trafficking make the challenging transition to self - sufficiency, protecting and advocating for one of the most vulnerable populations.

Beginning in April 2018, Americares emergency planning specialists will be working with health care providers in Texas serving vulnerable populations to complete detailed after - action reports on the impact of Hurricane Harvey on their clinical operations and make recommendations for future performance.

We actually made populations more vulnerable.

Such intense mass agitations in India have helped magnify the growing contradictions of economic globalization: how by fostering rapid growth in some sectors of the economy it raises expectations everywhere, but by distributing its benefits narrowly, it expands the population of the disenchanted and the frustrated, often making them vulnerable to populist politicians.

Since 2008, IRRI through its Hybrid Rice Development Consortium (HRDC) has been promoting hybrid rice research and providing access to new germplasm with the goal of filling in yield gaps that have been compounded by climate change, and have made rice - consuming populations increasingly vulnerable.

It is simply unacceptable to continue using toxic chemicals to make products meant to provide safety to our most vulnerable population, our children.

In a study of former NFL players, Guskiewicz found that suffering multiple concussions can make athletes more vulnerable to depression later in life and, last year, data revealed that retired NFL players suffered from higher rates of dementia and Alzheimer's than the general population.

Working with vulnerable populations in our world today involves special consideration of ethical guidelines and the ability to make ethical decisions often under the pressures of time and competing ethical demands.

Father Campbell made the remark on Tuesday when he visited the NHIA boss to commend the Authority for its interest in enrolling the needy and vulnerable populations of the country onto the Scheme, and to enlist the support of the NHIA in other humanitarian causes.

Mr. de Blasio has made supportive housing — which is affordable housing for vulnerable populations with services like healthcare, substance abuse, and mental health help on site for residents — a central component of his plan to tackle the city's ongoing homeless crisis, which has seen both the shelter and the street population on the rise.

He acknowledged the impact of the San Bernardino and Paris shootings on the American psyche, and said that the «natural instinct» was to «close down,» making the population vulnerable to demagogues.

From the 1970s to 1990s, the population dropped by 80 percent, and similar to other exploited species the fish have started to aggregate in smaller regions of the sea, making them more vulnerable to fishing pressure.

All of these changes drove mammoth populations down and reduced their geographic range, MacDonald says, making them «very vulnerable to even slight increases in hunting pressure from humans.»

He points out that the SCCA has a very aggressive infection control program and they all make infection prevention in this vulnerable population a top priority.

These particles pose health risks to populations, especially to the medically vulnerable, By infusing CATS data directly into aerosol models, data from CATS can make a difference in tracking and responding to impacts of similar events in the future.

«And this study adds emphasis to the idea that patients are susceptible to a wide range of conditions after a hospitalization — they are a highly vulnerable population and we need to focus intently on making the immediate post-discharge period safer.»

It's also at a higher latitude, which makes its population more vulnerable to heat waves, since they are less acclimated.

Although amphibian populations all over the region declined, the golden toad's limited habitat and small population made it especially vulnerable.

The nature of opioid use disorder, Rich says, makes incarcerated populations especially vulnerable to overdose.

In addition, efforts are being made in education and outreach in Arizona especially among homeless and jail populations, which the study identified as vulnerable to this outbreak.

Since 2008, IRRI through the HRDC has been promoting hybrid rice research and providing access to new germplasm with the goal of filling in yield gaps that have been compounded by climate change, and have made rice - consuming populations increasingly vulnerable.

The researchers did find, however, that human - induced climate change led to higher temperatures and incoming radiation, which made the population more vulnerable in drought events.

Together with these partnerships, we can make an impact on pressing health issues that face the most vulnerable populations.

That is, the arrival of toads removes some genetic traits from the predator population (genes that make predators vulnerable to toads) but other traits (e.g., genes that tell the predator not to eat toads) are not affected.

Stroke, which affects 17 % of the US population 65 and over, makes individuals particularly vulnerable to developing delirium and / or spatial neglect, with up to 50 % incidence for one or both disorders after right - brain stroke.

What made the reptile particularly vulnerable to population decline?

Dr. Romy Quijano, a medical doctor who heads the Philippine Action Network, also believes that the sensible approach to preventing vitamin A deficiency is to see that the vulnerable sectors of the population are empowered enough to access natural sources of vitamin A. «Effective nutrition education is much better than adding yet another source of vitamin A which most likely will not be equitably distributed anyway; improving livelihood; providing better health care system; addressing malnutrition, communicable diseases and other illnesses that make children more vulnerable to vitamin A deficiency.

This option from Bambu is made from an earth - friendly bamboo and organic cotton mix, and every purchase goes toward research on how to protect one of the world's most vulnerable populations, the honeybee.

«And even the researchers considered a wide range of factors, such as diet, exercise, alcohol consumption, smoking, body mass and marital status, it's still possible that people who drink coffee differ from the rest of the population in as - yet unidentified ways that make them less vulnerable to disease and early death» — says Susan Fisher, Ph.D., chair of community and preventive medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in Rochester, New York.

Little is known about the long - term health effects of this man - made technology, and yet we're putting them into all sorts of cosmetics and foods — including food for our most vulnerable population.

It's easy to overlook these vulnerable populations, but, with the likes of a fantastic feature like The Florida Project, Baker makes sure you can't.

School leaders must reconsider their priorities and their responsibilities when it comes to vulnerable children of color, and they must make every effort to meet the needs of this often - neglected student population.

I felt drawn to the specialty because it offered help to one of the most vulnerable animal populations; it combined my interests of working towards the greater good in the community and public health; and it was profession where I felt like I could make a difference improving the lives of un-homed animals every day.

This makes them highly vulnerable to being eaten and in turn suffering rapid population decline or, worse, extinction.

Geography, meteorology, poverty, shoddy construction, a booming population, and, to a much lesser degree, climate change combine to make the Philippines the nation most vulnerable to killer typhoons, according to several scientific studies.

Debuys» main takeaway from his extensive interviews and travels amounts to simple arithmetic involving the above points: (1) climate change makes (2) droughts and (3) growth even more challenging for the Southwest, which is (and always has been) vulnerable to rapid population expansion and resource depletion.

But interestingly, it also says the priority should be advancing technological solutions, creating incentives for populations across the globe to preserve their forests, and making the most vulnerable populations more resilient to heat waves and flooding.

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This makes the U.S. population more vulnerable.276, 293 Without careful consideration of how to prevent future impacts, similar patterns could emerge regarding the health impacts from climate change.

As climate change makes vulnerable parts of the world more susceptible to weather - related problems, people move from an afflicted region to neighboring areas, bringing them into conflict with the existing populations.

But as with all decision making approaches, the a challenge for MCA and methods like it is the subjective choices that have to be made about what weights to attach to all the relevant criteria that go into the analysis, including how the adaptation measure being studied impacts poor or vulnerable populations, or how fair it is in the distribution of who pays compared to who benefits.

Given that money to help vulnerable populations adapt has been ad hoc and insufficient, there is little optimism for funds being made available for compensation.

Public and private citizens or institutions who service and anticipate a role in maintaining support for vulnerable populations in Northeast cities and communities indicated that they are making plans to judge the demand for adaptation services.

Situated in the South Pacific Ocean, the majority of the residents of Tonga (population 90,000), live on the coastline, according to a BBC report, which makes their population seriously vulnerable to even slight increases in sea level rise.

And it said that «national policy decisions made now and in the longer - term future will influence the extent of any damage suffered by vulnerable human populations and ecosystems later in this century.»

The poor are least able to protect themselves from heat waves, and limited accessibility to water makes populations in many developing countries especially vulnerable to droughts.