The Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers (CARL) applauds the Ontario government for agreeing to temporarily fill the gap left by the federal government's abdication of responsibility to meet
the most basic health care needs of vulnerable refugees and refugee claimants.
«The federal government has abdicated responsibility to meet
the most basic health care needs of vulnerable refugees and refugee claimants», said Audrey Macklin, Professor and Chair in Human Rights Law at the University of Toronto, and a member of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers.
Looking more broadly, a 2001 WHO study analyzing the economics of health care in developing countries concluded that providing
the most basic health care services, the sort that could be supplied by a village - level clinic, would require donor grants averaging just $ 33 billion per year.
But I am also aware that every year, hundreds of thousands of women and babies experience no such reprieve from the preventable death sentence imposed when labour goes wrong and there is not even
the most basic health care available to ease their suffering and save their lives.
Not exact matches
At its
most basic level,
health insurance allows consumers to pay for the medical
care they need.
Should it somehow pass muster with the Senate (which, in the bill's current form, I can not imagine), it might end up doing what Republicans seem to fear
most: enshrining a citizen right to
basic health care.
And those nascent economies need infrastructure — electricity above all, transport across land (rail is
most efficient) and in the air, oil and gas, public lighting, and
basic health care.
Most provinces charge a progressive
basic health care levy, (i.e. at low income is equal to or next to nothing, increases proportionally with increasing family income), and at least one province has NO levy for all residents (i.e. AB).
Breaking the session down, we see that nine of the top 10 sectors were lower on the day, with the deficits
most pronounced among the telecom,
health care, and
basic materials issues.
A report published this week by the Irish
Health Information and Quality Authority into the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar, the woman who died while seventeen weeks pregnant in an Irish hospital, has determined that she failed to receive the
most basic of
care and that numerous....
On the
most basic level, our jail must provide its inmate population a full array of services, including meals, medical and mental
health care, clothing and linens, laundry, visitation, mail and telephone, recreation, religious programs, and access to courts and attorneys.
Some people wind up doing
basic research for a living, but
most apply [statistics] to a problem, be it [in the] life sciences, or
health care, or modeling the stock market.»
Each year cervical cancer kills about 250,000 women around the world,
most of them in developing regions without
basic health care.
The parents
care about long term
health consequences of dietary choices so if I could give them some
basic information of why eliminating meat is harmful it would be
most likely help.
One evening I was reading the Merck Manual, the
most popular medical reference book used by
health -
care professionals to look up
basic facts about assessment and treatment procedures.
«What we have found is the single
most important thing, aside from those
basic health care requirements that we have, is that the sending shelter is able to pick the correct [animal] personality,» says King.
Even in today's scientifically advanced world, the
basics of dog
health care are still the
most important.
Next to
basic health care, it's the
most important thing you can do for your pup.
These organizations focus on clients»
most basic human needs: preserving housing, protecting subsistence income, obtaining access to
health care, providing food and clothing for families and maintaining safety, independence, and dignity.
Often clinics assist people with meeting their
most basic needs, such as a source of income, a roof over their heads, human rights, rights to education and
health care, etc...
Legal Aid's focus is to provide legal help, so its clients can meet their
most basic needs such as safety from domestic violence, access to safe and secure housing, access to government programs that provide baseline cash and food support, and access to
health care.
Last year, Ottawa amended the interim federal
health program to reduce coverage for
most refugees and discontinue
basic care to asylum seekers from so - called «safe countries, failed refugees and others sponsored by community groups such as churches to resettle here from overseas camps.
Some internships are paid and others are not, but
most lack the
basic benefits awarded to employees, including
health care.
The
most basic plans offer one or the other: wellness visits or accident - only coverage (similar to a catastrophic
health care plan for us humans).
The curriculum will provide students with knowledge of the
health care industry in the United States and teach them how to understand medical terminology, process medical and insurance forms, and conduct
basic medical tasks and procedures relevant to
most medical offices.
Most medical assistant training in California will involve learning
basic medical terminology, human anatomy, interpersonal communication techniques and
health care ethics training.
For example, «a State party in which any significant number of individuals is deprived of essential foodstuffs, of essential primary
health care, of
basic shelter and housing, or of the
most basic forms of education is, prima facie, failing to discharge its obligations under the Covenant».36
As a result, even if a husband denies his wife money for her
most basic needs — clothes,
health care, food — she can not, as long as she continues to live with him, realistically expect to obtain a court order requiring him to provide her with reasonable support money.
Each year, Planned Parenthood
health centers provide
basic preventive
health care to three million people,
most of them women.
This law interfered with this
most basic responsibility of
health care providers, and we are glad to see it struck down.»
Those include prominent foes of abortion,
most without medical background or
health care expertise, whose primary objective reflects no desire to see that as many low - income women as possible have access to
basic health care but only that Planned Parenthood be defunded as the visible incarnation of «the abortion industry.»
«The state's «Affiliate Ban Rule» is invalid under state law and,
most importantly, threatens the integrity of the program and harms women who rely on Planned Parenthood, the provider of choice for nearly half of the patients who receive
basic, preventive
health care in the Women's Health Program,» said Pete Schenkkan, attorney with Graves, Dougherty, Hearon &
health care in the Women's
Health Program,» said Pete Schenkkan, attorney with Graves, Dougherty, Hearon &
Health Program,» said Pete Schenkkan, attorney with Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody.
The
most extreme elements of the Republican Party are not focused on jobs or on the economy, but on taking away women's access to
basic health care — cancer screenings, birth control, and annual exams.
«In their obsession with attacking women's access to
health care, extreme members of Congress would take
basic health care away from people who need it
most — those who are struggling to get by, who rely on Medicaid or have no
health insurance, and those who live in areas with few medical options.»