Sentences with phrase «universal access to care»

Real progress will require tackling discrimination against women, increasing resources to strengthen health systems to ensure universal access to care, including through skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care, and expanding access to family planning.

The need to ensure universal access to care in this provincial context may have fostered an environment where detailed discussions about options and preferences are sometimes deferred, or are a lower priority, because of time constraints.

In addition, family physicians» mandate is to provide universal access to care for all types of people, from cradle to grave, despite a chronic physician shortage.

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The widely enjoyed social benefits residents get in exchange for their taxes, such as universal health care, access to education and subsidized parental leave, could have something to do with the «strong social foundations» touted by Sachs.

Under Goal no. 3, which is about global health, I note a need to «achieve universal health coverage,» as well as to «ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health - care services.»

Moss was stunned — the bad news was made worse by the fact that he and Jennifer were living in the United States, without access to Canada's universal health - care system.

«We are going to have to become a lot more innovative and flexible in how we deliver health care while holding fast to the principle of universal access regardless of ability to pay.»

Adequate health care and the right to security during sickness is guaranteed under Article 25 of the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights, however these rights are regularly violated and, for those in our nation least able to afford it, access to affordable health care often remains out of reach.

I believe Jesus would favor providing universal access to basic health care.

This is the modest sum which needs to be invested each year in «social support» to guarantee universal access to drinking water within ten years (1,300 million individuals did not have access in 1997), universal access to basic education (1,000 million people are illiterate), universal access to basic healthcare (17 million children die each year from easily cured illnesses), universal access to adequate nourishment (2,000 million people suffer from anemia), universal access to sanitary infrastructures and universal access for women to gynecological and obstetric care.

Only a public authority can guarantee the universal access to a medical care of quality, the development of knowledge and the certainty of a job as well as social protection for all.

First of all — check the definition of «Universal» — the purpose of health care reform is to ensure that all citizens of this country have access to reasonable health care.

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The UK, recognising their high stillbirth rate, despite universal access to good antenatal care and high detection rates of congenital anomalies with elective termination as a frequently chosen option after detection, aren't throwing their hands up and saying that those stillnirth deaths can't be prevented.

The agenda must address universal health - care coverage, access and affordability; end preventable maternal, new - born and child deaths and malnutrition ensure the protection, promotion and support of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding with adequate complementary feeding for 2 years and beyond ensure the availability of essential medicines; realize women's reproductive health and rights; ensure immunization coverage; eradicate malaria and realize the vision of a future free of AIDS and tuberculosis; reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases, including mental illness, nervous system injuries and road accidents; and promote healthy behaviours, including those related to breastfeeding, water, sanitation and hygiene.

In reconsidering, Mr Grayling may care to reflect that universal access to justice is the cornerstone of any civilised society.

President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the Primary Health Care Centre for Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria at Kuchigoro with a promise to ensure access to quality basic healthcare.

All seven candidates seeking to unseat Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) are calling for universal health care access.

«We believe that universal access to health care, education, affordable food, water, electricity and housing is the right of every Ghanaian» says the manifesto, adding that the NDC Government will establish and implement a framework for collective and individual contribution to the peace, safety, security and stability of the country when retained in power.

According to him, though the scheme is making strides in providing universal health care access to citizens, there was the urgent need...

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.

The emergency room, experts say, has long been perceived as a great care equalizer, given universal access to it and the highly standardized nature of trauma treatment protocols.

The surprisingly timely V plays off concerns about universal health care, terrorism, sleeper cells and journalists» access to leaders.

Also important is universal access to high - quality, affordable, integrated early childhood education and care, especially in the year before full - time school and for developmentally vulnerable children and children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Indianapolis — The nation's chief state school officers last week endorsed a comprehensive early - childhood and family - education plan calling for universal access to prekindergarten programs, publicly supported day care, and increased federal involvement in efforts to help children at risk of school failure.

BBA advocates providing universal access to health care for children, quality early - childhood education, and expanded access to extended learning opportunities, after school and during the summer.

It's an energy - independent community with 100 percent employment and universal access to education and health care.

Making Medicines in Africa is a collective endeavour, by a group of contributors with a strong African and more broadly Southern presence, to find ways to link technological development, investment and industrial growth in pharmaceuticals to improve access to essential good quality medicines, as part of moving towards universal access to competent health care in Africa.

You'll probably need to learn French to find a decent paying job, but you'd also get access to Quebec's universal child care system.

Medicines: Our goal remains to scale up international efforts to provide universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support services.The ten-fold increase in people on treatment in sub-Saharan Africa in recent years shows that we can do it.

But even if that issue were to disappear overnight — if we were somehow to institute universal legal - care coverage, so that everyone in the world would have access to the best legal services available today — that doesn't answer a prior question: Are the best legal services currently available any good?

One woman's experience of difficulty accessing child care paints a bigger picture that illustrates why Canada needs universal child care to close the gender wage gap and achieve gender equity.

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.»

With the combination universal life and long - term care plan, funds can be accessed to cover an extensive list of care - related needs, including skilled nursing home costs, assisted living and adult day care expenses, hospice care, and home health care needs.

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Nearly universal access to health care for infants and children allows the patient - centered medical home to play a key role in the promotion of SSNRs.

The Turnbull government declared its «rock solid» commitment to universal health care with a $ 10 billion pledge to health in the 2017 - 18 Federal Budget including the staggered withdrawal of the Medicare indexation freeze and establishment of a Medicare Guarantee Fund to ensure longevity of universal health care and access to medicines.

«These developments must be spear - headed by real commitment to health care arrangements that will deliver value, invest in innovation and preserve universal access through Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

There is no comprehensive plan to facilitate universal access to regulated child care for children 0 — 12 years in Ontario.

This policy statement from the AAP advocates a public health response to the opioid epidemic and substance use during pregnancy, and recommends: a focus on preventing unintended pregnancies and improving access to contraception; universal screening for alcohol and other drug use in women of childbearing age; knowledge and informed consent of maternal drug testing and reporting practices; improved access to prenatal care, including opioid replacement therapy; gender - specific substance use treatment programs; and improved funding for social services and child welfare systems.

We were, and continue to be, honored to share Dr. King's message of universal access to quality, affordable health care as an urgent social, civil and human rights issue.

Health services: improving integration; expanding sub-acute services; increasing access to palliative care; universal dental insurance.

Access to a continuum of high - quality child care and universal preschool is essential to the well - being and future successes of young children — particularly children from low - income families and families of color.

Promote child - friendly communities and advocate for universal access to a range of high - quality early childhood and school age care programs for all children (link to NQS Element 6.3.4).

Our Vision of Mental Health for Infants and Toddlers in Oregon All of Oregon's young children — prenatally thru 3 — and the adults who care for them are thriving: experiencing emotional well - being and optimal development; through universal access to current and reliable information, resources, and support.

Though not limited to this list, the team also focuses on the following issues: home visiting, access to affordable and high - quality child care, universal preschool, and supporting the early childhood workforce.

The Lancet's Series on Canada examines the country's system of universal health coverage and its global role in health, including Canada's legacy, challenges, and future path on issues such as access to health care, gender equality, global health diplomacy, and Indigenous peoples» health.

The present study therefore presents an unusual opportunity to learn about predictors of children's health care and health status within a lower income sample, under conditions where there is universal access to health services.

In the 1950s and early 1960s, lower income families in Canada had less access to primary health care (which was not covered by universal health insurance at that time) than more affluent families.

The interrelation between disadvantage, poor health, low rates of primary care, and greater use of emergency facilities is found even within universal access health care systems, suggesting that factors in addition to financial affordability impact children's health care.