Sentences with phrase «poor access to healthcare»

Objectives Indigenous Australians have a disproportionately high burden of chronic illness, and relatively poor access to healthcare.

Patients in certain parts of Asia in particular may have ingrained cultural beliefs or preferences to self - medicate with traditional treatments, poor access to healthcare, or socioeconomic limitations which could hypothetically lead to long delays before seeing a doctor.»

Not exact matches

For example, that could mean investing in a company that's actively working to reduce its carbon footprint through its supply chain operations, or a company that is a leader in promoting gender diversity through maternity and paternity policies, or one that is improving access to high quality healthcare for poor people globally.

Poverty leads to a range of issues that impact upon health outcomes, including access to healthcare, poor diet, poor housing, vulnerability to violence and so on.

If you look at what women are actually dying from during childbirth in the US, it's all chronic medical conditions that were exacerbated by the stresses of pregnancy and childbirth, often because the dead mothers are black and / or poor and didn't have access to primary healthcare before becoming pregnant.

The problem is when this devolves into the claims that 1) homebirth in the US is an acceptable alternative to hospital birth and 2) the main reason for poor outcomes in hospitals is opposition to natural birth (and the inevitable c - section)-- all the while completely ignoring much more real problems such as the huge disparity of outcomes by race; the high prevalence of pre-existing health conditions in the general population; and access to healthcare.

He pledged the NHIA's continued support to helping the poor get access to healthcare.

And I am coming to revive the National Health Insurance Scheme, which ensured that the poor in society gained access to healthcare without the financial burden which used to be associated with healthcare delivery (under the cash and carry regime),» he told supporters at Nkrankwanta and Diaba, both in the Dormaa West constituency of the Brong Ahafo Region.

«UK aid is making a vital difference to the lives of many of the world's poorest and most marginalised people, including those who are visually impaired and those with limited access to healthcare.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

«I am coming to revive the National Health Insurance Scheme, which ensured that the poor in society gained access to healthcare without the financial burden which used to be associated with healthcare delivery (under the cash and carry regime),» he said.

We've come a long way, but we are still witnessing disturbing disparities in access to quality education, employment, housing and healthcare between blacks and whites, and rich and poor Americans.

The chaplain can also become a support and guide to healthcare providers and policymakers who would withhold healthcare access to patients they consider to have become ill due to perceived poor moral character.

Just as Trump's flunkies exert political pressure to halt access to healthcare (or immigration or policies to address climate change), so NJEA exerts political pressure — as well as its deep pockets — to stave off the continued enrollment of children, mostly poor and of color, in high - quality alternative public schools.

It found that, despite a share programme meant to increase worker profits, workers suffered from low wages, poor working conditions and inadequate living quarters, and struggled to access basic healthcare.

User fees, even with exemptions to the poor, were not successful in raising resources and did not help in improving quality and access to healthcare,» it said.

A series of fact sheets prepared as part of the submission note that «overcrowding, poor conditions and substandard healthcare characterise Australian prisons», and that «there is significant under - funding of the legal system and systematic barriers to accessing justice, particularly for vulnerable and disadvantaged people».

According to a study published in 2016 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, blacks «are significantly more likely than other Americans to live in high - poverty neighborhoods — neighborhoods characterized by poor schools and limited access to healthcare, jobs, and beneficial social networks,» even as the poverty gap between black and white neighborhoods continues to close.