The government of Myanmar directs less than 3% of its budget annually towards health care, resulting in scant services for its people [ 1].
Despite this positive pattern of change, the growing influx of returnees to South Sudan has placed an extraordinary strain on already scant services and resources.
Despite this positive pattern of change, the growing influx of returnees to South Sudan has placed an extraordinary strain on already scant services and resources (a returnee is a person who has left his/her place of origin, regardless of the reason, but who has returned to his/her place of origin).
Tourism, however, led to the mushrooming of Katmandu, a city with scant public services that soon became inundated with backpackers and hippies, drawing criticism of uncontrolled tourist growth.
Big companies have pressed doctors, hospitals and consumers to the limit with scant reimbursements, poor service, rules that dictate which doctors can be used, and unjustified premium increases.
The U.N. describes similar scant facilities and services in other camps in the region where Burundian refugees have sought refuge.
As a result, when prices began to drop in the fall of 2014, Chavez's presidential successor, Nicolás Maduro, faced a triple calamity: diminished revenues for social services, scant savings to draw upon, and no alternative sources of income.
Yet despite this apparently supportive broader context, research on carers' experiences of involvement within mental health services is scant, particularly in comparison to the body of research published on service user involvement.
Details of the new service were scant yesterday.
