Increased funding is needed for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations to expand in areas where there is
poor access to health services and increased burden of disease, and to grow their capacity and respond to mental health, disability and aged care needs.
Poor access to health services contributes to poor health outcomes and an increased chance of reincarceration, Megan Williams told Croakey.
Not exact matches
In their deliberations, they agreed
to 20 specific actions
to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community
health workers in
poor regions of the world,
to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack
access to financial
services,
to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.
The new measure is aimed at giving
poor women in particular
access to reproductive
health services.
Living Goods seeks
to reinvent how the
poor access vital goods and
services, leading
to significant gains in the
health and wealth of families living in poverty.
Innovation and Activities Living Goods seeks
to reinvent how the
poor access vital goods and
services, leading
to significant gains in the
health and wealth of families living in poverty.
Growing sectors of the populations are denied
access to education, basic
health services, or jobs that would allow even a precarious subsistence, The
poor, the marginalized and the excluded are not significant consumers, much less players in the global market; they have no
access to information highways and hardly a chance
to shape any of the other significant byways of the process of capitalist globalization.
He acknowledged the
health of the
poorest people has not improved at the same pace as that of the richest and named
access to GP
services as a key factor in determining
health outcomes.
«In the Senate, I want
to fight for public safety and criminal justice reform, education programs, affordable housing, increased
access to mental
health care, economic development and opportunities, and social
service reforms, especially as they affect middle class families and the working
poor,» he said in a statement.
«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
health care that push them deeper into poverty,» said Timothy Evans, Director of
Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank
Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank Group.
«Hamilton has extensive
health and social
services but 40 per cent of respondents felt their
access to health care was either fair or
poor,» said Dr. Firestone, who holds a PhD in public
health.
The program targets the
poorest members in a village and provides a productive asset grant, training and support, life skills coaching, temporary cash consumption support, and typically
access to savings accounts and
health information or
services.
Perhaps the harsher weather conditions in some areas of Russia, dramatic growth of smoking women in Russia,
poorer health care, and limited
access to quality skin care products and
services due
to poorer economy makes Russian women age faster in the face than western women.
Housed in the Department of
Health and Human Services, Head Start has in the past emphasized not just early education but also socialization and giving poor children and their families access to an array of nutritional, health, and social ser
Health and Human
Services, Head Start has in the past emphasized not just early education but also socialization and giving poor children and their families access to an array of nutritional, health, and social s
Services, Head Start has in the past emphasized not just early education but also socialization and giving
poor children and their families
access to an array of nutritional,
health, and social ser
health, and social
servicesservices.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the British government today (World Population Day) have been hosting a London Summit on Family Planning, aimed at expanding
access to contraception and related
health services for women, particularly in
poor urban communities, who want more control over the size of their families.
Along the way, we will reap multiple co-benefits such as improved air quality and
health,
access to modern energy
services for the
poor and energy security for all nations.
This is one reason why many
service users with learning disabilities or in
poor mental
health have been unable
to access direct payments.
People and communities experiencing social exclusion, unstable housing, low income, food insecurity, unemployment and
poor working conditions, weak social safety nets and lack of
access to health, social and legal
services are shaped by a wider set of forces: economics, social policies, and politics.
But, with the introduction of the insurance - based model of
health care, the presence of several unregulated private clinics will be clipped, leading
to easy
access of
health care
services even
to the
poorer sections of our society.»
that the Budget would be a mess for Indigenous communities, given one of the main barriers
to poor Indigenous
health outcomes was lack of
access to services.
Deputy Chair of the Government's Indigenous Advisory Council Dr Ngaire Brown told the Australian Financial Review that the Budget would be a mess for Indigenous communities, given one of the main barriers
to poor Indigenous
health outcomes was lack of
access to services.
Participants referred
to existing evidence that indigenous peoples affected by HIV have a long and enduring history of mistrust of
health services, which results in
poor access to health care, late testing for HIV and
poor or no care and support for people living with HIV.
The impact of this disadvantage is mediated within a context in which indigenous Australians have
poorer access to adequate housing, a healthy physical environment, and good
health and related community
services.
As expected, when compared with participants living with others, those living alone were more likely
to report (any) depressive symptoms when living in neighbourhoods with
poorer access to civic / institutional destinations, retail, food / eating outlets, public transport stops and
health clinics /
services, lower levels of crowdedness and fewer people on the streets (table 4).
The needs analysis also highlights an «overwhelming need» for more mental
health services across the PHN, especially for the Torres Strait and Cape regions, where people «have no
access to acute mental
health beds and
poor access to mental
health professionals».
Almost nowhere in any post-Budget announcements have we seen any reference
to the most disadvantaged members of our community, and the impact that budget cuts will have on those who are already excluded from
health services because of barriers such as
poor access to primary
health, lack of
access to prevention programs,
poor health literacy, and most of all, cost.
«During the settlement process, refugees share the difficulties associated with adjusting
to a new and very different culture, the limited
access to information, the disruption of their lives and the schooling of their children, the issues of
poor health and difficulty in
accessing appropriate and affordable housing, the pressure of adjusting
to a new environment, the difficulties in entering the employment market and the relative lack of understanding of their communities by Australian
service providers.
He helped expand
access to reproductive
health services wherever the need was greatest — in rural communities and among the young and the
poor.
Furthermore, it contributes little
to efforts
to meet some of the most pressing challenges facing our
health system —
poor access to dental
services and mental
health care for many in the community and the prevention and ongoing management of chronic disease.
The event recognises that culturally diverse and Aboriginal communities are disproportionately impacted by viral hepatitis for a range of reasons including inadequate
access to health services,
poor health literacy, and broader socio - economic disadvantage.
On social - emotional measures, foster children in the NSCAW study tended
to have more compromised functioning than would be expected from a high - risk sample.43 Moreover, as indicated in the previous section, research suggests that foster children are more likely than nonfoster care children
to have insecure or disordered attachments, and the adverse long - term outcomes associated with such attachments.44 Many studies of foster children postulate that a majority have mental
health difficulties.45 They have higher rates of depression,
poorer social skills, lower adaptive functioning, and more externalizing behavioral problems, such as aggression and impulsivity.46 Additionally, research has documented high levels of mental
health service utilization among foster children47 due
to both greater mental
health needs and greater
access to services.
He will have been a close observer of the well - known
health service deficits borne by rural people, including the relatively
poor access to health professionals, particularly those in more specialised disciplines.
For example, given that Indigenous peoples»
poorer health status would indicate a greater need for primary
health care
services, it is disturbing that in 2004 it was estimated that Indigenous peoples enjoyed 40 % of the per capita
access of the non-Indigenous population
to primary
health care provided by mainstream general practitioners.