Sentences with phrase «on systemic barriers»

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We still have issues such as holding our party primaries in August when many people are on vacation, systemic barriers like where and how to get to the polls and a confusing system for casting absentee ballots.

Keep in mind that saturated fats don't cross the blood - brain barrier so their only effect on the brain is via their influence on systemic inflammation.

This barrier is critical because «The mucosa is directly exposed to the external environment and taxed with antigenic loads... at far greater quantities on a daily basis than the systemic immune system sees in a lifetime» (Mayer, 2003).

The skin microbiome: impact of modern environments on skin ecology, barrier integrity, and systemic immune programming.

Impairment of the highly specific nutrient uptake processes, or compromised GI barrier function, as in «leaky gut syndrome,» can result from a number of causes including: • Low gastric acid production • Chronic maldigestion • Food allergen impact on bowel absorptive surfaces • Bacterial overgrowth or imbalances (dysbiosis) • Pathogenic bacteria, yeast or parasites and related toxic irritants • The use of NSAIDs and antibiotics Impairment of intestinal functions can contribute to the development of food allergies, systemic illnesses, autoimmune disease, and toxic overload from substances that are usually kept in the confines of the bowel for elimination.

State and district guidelines for school improvement planning are focusing too heavily on standards and results - oriented improvements instead of promoting systemic changes to address barriers to teaching and learning, concludes a report from the Center for Mental Health in Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles.

To support attendance, schools must first establish a positive and engaging school climate.87 To reduce chronic absenteeism, however, schools may need to implement more rigorous interventions.88 For example, schools can increase parent engagement to educate guardians on the risks associated with accumulated absences, which they often underestimate.89 Schools may also need to address systemic barriers to attendance by providing safe transportation or high - quality afterschool programs.90

But this moot problem can also help us reflect on the role of self - governance and the adequate consideration of racial and systemic barriers.

The public function of human rights legislation to eradicate systemic barriers has a particularly important role in the lives of persons with disabilities who face multiple barriers on a daily basis.

... a significant barrier to systemic diversity at the law firm partnership level has been, paradoxically, the insistence on difference blindness standards that seek to evaluate each person on their individual merit.

Sponsored by the Georgia Bar Foundation, these eleven Fellows and seven Community Advocates will provide a combination of services including client representation on housing and housing - related issues, community outreach and education to community members and property owners, and advocacy to remove systemic barriers to housing at the local and statewide levels.

This often has a disproportionate impact on communities of color, who already face systemic barriers in accessing quality health care — as National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, In Our Own Voice, and other Reproductive Justice organizations have demonstrated.

Due to systemic barriers, women of color rely on the Title X program at higher rates than White women.

What's more, blocking patients from care at health centers has a disproportionate impact on communities of color — who already face systemic barriers in accessing quality health care.

This would have a devastating impact on women and their families, with systemic barriers putting women of color at disproportionate risk.

Blocking access to reproductive health care has real and disastrous consequences for all people and often has a disproportionate impact on communities of color, who already face systemic barriers in accessing quality health care.

Racism and discriminatory public policy have created systemic barriers that result in women of color disproportionately relying on Medicaid.

As such, the bill would undermine health care access for women and impose additional costs on them — particularly women who already face systemic barriers to care, including women with low incomes and women of color.

It also has a disproportionate impact on communities of color, who already face systemic barriers in accessing quality health care

The report will have a solution - oriented focus, building on the strengths and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls to overcome systemic issues and structural barriers, often in the face of great adversity.