Sentences with phrase «poor access to medical care»

The reasons are complex and include lifestyle factors such as poor diet and lack of exercise, poverty, and poor access to medical care and health literacy.

Not exact matches

Traditionally mobile clinics have mainly catered to those in, say, poorer communities around the country where access to health care is limited, cumbersome or people are simply unable to get time off to visit medical professionals.

Seven in 10 of the world's poor live in remote or rural areas, where access to medical services is sharply limited or not available at all: 5 billion people can't reach or afford essential surgical care, from emergency caesarian sections to cancer surgery.

In a population - based Canadian study of children with epilepsy, each of whom had access to universal health care, those from poor families had the same medical course and remission rate as their wealthier counterparts, but they had a less favorable social outcome as adults.

A Huffington Post blog notes, «Jarvis also worked for universal access to medicine for the poor [and was] a pacifist who served both sides in the Civil War by working for camp sanitation and medical care for soldiers of the North and the South.»

Or is adversity attributable to parental or societal issues like poverty, divorce / single parenting, poor housing, lack of access to medical or mental health care, or the threat of violence or terrorism?