Sentences with phrase «poor populations»

• Risk of food insecurity and the breakdown of food systems linked to warming, drought, flooding, and precipitation variability and extremes, particularly for poorer populations in urban and rural settings.

Like for many neglected tropical diseases that disproportionately affect poor populations, existing drugs have serious side - effects and face increasing parasite resistance.

The clinic also worked to teach medical students about the role of community medicine in helping poorer populations.

On the contrary, it is poorer populations who are less able to resist powerful interests.

As a result of the large - scale actions aimed at alleviation of poverty, the size of poor populations in rural areas of China decreased from 250 million in 1978 to 82 · 49 million in 2010.

This chart shows the level of access in countries» poorest populations compared to citizens who are not in deep poverty.

I do notice the article says, «an island with an extraordinary ecological bounty that has been relentlessly destroyed by a struggling, poor population trying to expand rice farming and find wood for fuel and construction».

Christians know this (eye of the needle + rich man = dead end to heaven) but they ignore it and pretend the men they are paying weekly are using this money to help the ever - growing poor population, when they are using it to cover up molesting your sons.

Under the need - based formula recommended by the Medicaid Redesign Team in 2013, hospitals serving a higher concentration of Medicaid patients were meant to receive richer funding from the pool — as a way of directing more funds to institutions serving poorer populations.

Anyone who has tried to do fieldwork with very poor populations understands that often the research itself is subject to the chaos and unpredictability of life in the inner city.

In fact, KIPP serves a slightly poorer population.

Previous research has shown that divorce rates are higher and marriage rates are lower among poorer populations in the United States, but the researchers found that generally poorer respondents hold more traditional views about marriage than respondents on higher incomes.

Until a means of safely administering iron in infectious environments has been developed, there remains an imperative to reduce the infectious burden as a prerequisite to moving poor populations from their current state of widespread iron deficiency and anemia.»

Laura Stachel, a co-founder of We Care Solar and an obstetrician, said that when she first met Rogers, she was intrigued that someone with his utility - sector background was so committed to helping poor populations gain access to power through distributed generation.

New figures from the 2010 Census show that more than half of the nation's poor population now resides in the suburbs, and minority racial groups make up 35 % of suburban communities.

Speaking to an audience of more than 300 business, political, educational, and nonprofit leaders, Martinez illustrated with graphs and charts the education gaps that exist due to San Antonio ISD's historically poor population.

Ludo's involvement in an ill - conceived supermarket launch aimed at the favela's desperately poor population risks embroiling him in a world of violence and brutality.

From there, the idea of government responsibility in providing economic security and welfare grew, from unimaginable realities, such as the English Poor Laws of 1601 that called for the dependent poor population to wear a shameful P on their clothing, to shadows of our present Social Security system, like Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice that called for a system that included annual benefits of 10 pounds sterling paid to every person age 50 and older, to protect against poverty in old - age.

Getz said the county would be better served by making more spay and neuter clinics available in remote areas with large working - poor populations such as Bithlo and Winter Garden.

We had several long conversations about how to affordably provide electricity in countries like India and the Philippines, with vast poor populations, both rural and urban.

The chance of seeing big human losses in such storms is almost assuredly growing because of superimposed demographic, climatic, and oceanic trends: rising sea levels, swelling poor populations in flood zones, and the possibility of stronger tropical storms in a warming world.

Over the weekend, Alexei Barrionuevo filed an illuminating story on Brazil's recognition that it faces the same kinds of vulnerabilities as other countries where poor populations are settling on marginal terrain.

Developing countries, faced with a choice between energy development for poor populations and mitigating climate risk for future generations, have consistently chosen the former; they are building new, fossil - based energy infrastructure as fast as they can.

Donelon called those who target poorer populations to encourage claims filing «ambulance chasers» and a «soft tissue industry... who are chasing minor accidents and converting them into $ 15,000 windfalls.»

According to the Brookings Institute's «The Growth and Spread of Concentrated Poverty» between 2008 and 2012 our urban poor population grew overall by 21 percent «while in suburbs it more than doubled, growing by 105 percent.»

Speaking at the Press Club of Baton Rouge, Donelon echoed the findings of recent reports that showed this is due in large part to a higher likelihood for Louisiana drivers to sue following an accident, a trend the commissioner tied to the actions of poorer populations in the state's two largest cities.

«to draw attention to the plight of an island with an extraordinary ecological bounty that has been relentlessly destroyed by a struggling, poor population trying to expand rice farming and find wood for fuel and construction.»

The effects of pollution tend to disproportionally affect poor populations, since they tend to be more exposed to toxic chemicals in air and water at sources near their homes or at work.

But, come this summer, Gates will step down from his post as Microsoft chairman to work at his and his wife's philanthropic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which focuses on improving the health and education of the world's very poorest populations.

The demographics of the schools are very similar — and in fact, charter schools represent a slightly poorer population than the LAUSD schools.

In a statement, NIH Director Francis Collins commended Ruffin for his «extraordinary service» and called him «a tireless champion» who «has done everything in his power to bring attention to and find solutions for the unequal burden of illness affecting minority, rural, and poor populations in this country.»

Perhaps most concerning is the study's findings that the smoking rate hasn't changed in poor populations; among the rich, it's fallen more than five percentage points.

Between 2000 and 2008, the poor population in the suburbs of the nation's 100 largest metro areas grew by 25 %, almost five times faster than in the cities they surround.

Pentecostal women must also wear clothes that distinguish them from the rest of the poor population.

Eventhough the center provides needed health care services to a poorer population in the Bronx, that does not justify bilking government funds to pay for family and friends in high paying jobs, an astronomical buyout provision for the Senator, and of course contributing to the mortgage payment for the Westchester digs.

Through Merck's donation program, which launched in 1987, the drug is given to poor populations, protecting hundreds of millions of people against the otherwise incurable loss of their ability to see.

The product should, he decided, be produced locally and sustainably to boost the local economy, and the poorest populations should be able to afford it.

Most of those deaths are concentrated among the world's poorest populations, according to a study published online October 19 in the Lancet that documents the health and economic toll of pollution in 2015.

Their analysis emphasizes the greater vulnerability of poor populations to climate impacts and highlights the need for better modeling, like that proposed by the Princeton team, to reduce poverty and climate change.

However, it did not appear to preferentially benefit ethnic and racial minorities who are typically the most vulnerable of America's poorest population,» explains the study's lead investigator, Waddah B. Al - Refaie, MD, surgeonin - chief at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and chief of surgical oncology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.

A decile 1 school has the poorest population, while a decile 10 school has the richest.

But they were 10 times more likely to happen in the school serving the poorest population compared with the school serving the wealthiest population.

Tax deductions and overall benefits accrue to those who already have high incomes, which will make the rich investors even richer and the poorer population even poorer, possibly creating and prolonging a social divide between socio - economic classes.

With the increased use of large numbers of laboratory rats in the last century, this disease has been seen most often in laboratory animal workers in the US, as well as in poor populations.

Illness after the bite of a rat has been described for thousands of years in Asia in poor populations that are exposed to wild rats.