For example, in rural Mexico, pregnant women who were beneficiaries of Oportunidades received a cash transfer conditional on attending five antenatal care visits, taking nutritional supplements, and participating in monthly meetings led by beneficiary representatives to discuss prenatal care, nutrition, and reproductive health information.
This confirms the findings related to ADL declines over the short-term (two-years) that were reported from two smaller community-based studies [ 13, 14], and extends those results to include IADLs and mobility in a large sample of Medicare beneficiaries nationally representative of the United States over 2-12 years.
One early analysis of House appropriations and federal elections records found that every private beneficiary of Representative John Murtha's recent earmarks, dished by way of his powerful defense appropriations seat, has requited with campaign cash.
Among the beneficiaries were Representatives Bruce Braley of Iowa, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Ben Chandler of Kentucky, Gerald E. Connolly of Virginia and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico — all of whom ended up winning close races.
This paper reports findings from a large multi-method evaluation that employed methods used previously by the research team [ 44, 45] to elicit the views and experiences of a broad constituency of beneficiaries/potential beneficiaries, user representatives, practitioners, public health specialists, service managers and commissioners, and policy makers.
Under the proposals, a fund wishing to transfer its portfolio across national borders must first receive approval from a majority of members and beneficiaries, or representatives of the pension scheme.
The Treasury Department clarified earlier statements from the U.A.W. that beneficiary association representatives on the G.M. and Chrysler boards would have to vote with the majority of the boards' directors.
While the range of stakeholders involved in the 2007 legislative review remained similar to 2004, civil society, the generic industry, government civil servants and even the research-based industry, had more interaction with beneficiary country representatives which was specific to CAMR, yielding new and more relevant information.
(iii) If the beneficiary is unconscious, under great duress, or for any other reason unable to read a written notice and understand and act on his or her own rights, the notice must be provided, before the delivery of services, to the beneficiary's authorized representative.
Security concerns forced cancellation of the planned field trip to Goma, in the province of North Kivu, so it was not possible to meet beneficiaries, partners or representatives of decentralized government structures.
