But in the last decade, and especially since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, steps to include them have faltered in a political climate increasingly hostile to those who face barriers of language, cost and fear of penalties like deportation, say immigrant health experts, providers and patients.
However, it is difficult for Burmese migrants to attend Thai schools for a number of reasons including language, cost, fear of deportation, and curriculum [ 1, 2, 7].
The rows of black taxis waiting for businessmen on generous expense accounts to pour out of the exclusive restaurants did not go away, but their story became a very different one – of corporate restructuring or, in ordinary language, cost-cutting.
"There's an irony that the people who need to learn a language the most don't have much money, but learning a language costs a lot".
Translations into any of the Slavic languages cost 35 to 45 cents per word, and translations into Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Hebrew fetch 40 to 50 cents per word.
The app is free, but the language-pack add-ons, which teach thousands of useful phrases and sentences in 12 different languages, cost extra.
It is offered in four languages, costs $39.95 and features learning and travelogue DVDs and vocabulary and music CDs.
On the one hand, it's an independent and enviably serious voice of Britain in 32 different languages, costing £272m a year – money straight from the Foreign Office as a grant in aid.
Backblaze, available in 11 languages, costs $5 a month or $50 a year for unlimited online storage for backing up your hard drive, with a 15-day free trial available.
Despite the increasing use of evidence-based guidelines over the last decade to complement other approaches to care, there appears to be a relative dearth of English-language cost-effectiveness analyses of such guidelines ([ 1- 11]).
Regarding key aspects of methodology reporting in health economic studies, our study also confirms the findings of Neumann et al. who analyzed adherence to recommended reporting practice in English-language cost-utility studies published between 1976 1997 and 1998 2001 [ 1].
