"They have discretionary spending for basic needs, but access to services to fulfill those needs is lacking in many parts of the country," says Amy Bell, who led the investment for JPMorgan Chase's $100 million Social Finance fund.
Good end-of-life care is often neglected, and detailed UK-based research on symptom burden and needs is lacking.
People with advanced liver disease face many physical and psychosocial challenges, but in-depth research which considers their unique care and support needs is lacking.
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The second thing that emerges is that it takes awareness to identify which need is lacking.
Overall patients thought the amount of preparatory information they received was adequate, but the specific information they needed was lacking.
The most commonly and extensively discussed basic needs were lack of food, and school requirements such as school fees, uniform, shoes, and stationery.
In Botswana, as in many other developing countries, formal CPD programs to address lifelong learning needs of laboratory professionals are lacking.
