After succeeding reports and debates, legislation was passed in 1917 that provided for purchase of a site and receipt of any person afflicted with leprosy who presented himself or herself for care, detention, and treatment, or who might be apprehended under authority of the United States Quarantine Acts[ 27].
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs provided $10,000 for purchasing supplies to the most affected areas.
In total, the agency allocated $10.6 million, mostly in the form of individual assistance that provided money for purchasing lost supplies.
Left intact was the Finance Committee provision that said subsidies would be provided for insurance purchased through an "exchange established by the state".
In addition to providing means for purchasing health care, higher economic status can provide better nutrition, housing and recreational opportunities.
Destocking is a strategy followed by many pastoralists in order to cope with climate shock and to provide money for purchasing crop residues.
The first one, called the Absolute Income Hypothesis, was initially introduced by Preston [29] and states that there is a positive and concave relationship between income and health.1 Higher incomes can provide means for purchasing a better health status.
The authors are grateful to STW for providing funding for purchasing the pigs and leasing the pressure mat equipment.
In their role as financial intermediaries, UHC schemes have leverage to determine what types of care they pay for and how much they will pay, and they can implement policies that provide incentives for purchasing, prescribing, and using the most clinically appropriate and safe medicines that are known to achieve highly valued health outcomes.
The company has surpassed its goals for the third year – both in terms of number of credit cards distributed to clients, as well as overall amount of credit provided for the purchase of goods.
