Substandard situations must not scale down ambitions for better data collection; rather, the ability to identify causes of death should be scaled up.
Most of my Native American peers, including myself, come from rural reservations that have their share of problems including poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, a substandard economic situation, and little or no opportunities in general.
Moreover, most of the children in the studies are poor, and many have other risk factors known to affect cognitive development and behavior — inadequate health care, substandard schools, unstable family situations and exposure to high levels of lead.
Most geometric elements turn out to be substandard with respect to current traffic situation, thus creating incident risk to road users.
Back in 2011, the employment situation for our nation's veterans was substandard.
Are we compounding the situation by encouraging people living doubled or tripled up or in substandard housing to think of applying for shelter as the first step to getting a better apartment?
Compared with other resource-poor settings, conflict situations, because of disrupted health services, may have even more substandard infection control, insufficient trained staff, and personal protective equipment (PPE), which make EHF containment difficult.
Many troubled veterans, some of whom are disabled, have been able to afford only substandard living quarters in poor neighborhoods with high rates of crime and drug abuse — "a situation that is not conducive to their efforts to sustain economic independence and solve physical and emotional problems," she added.
When the Lao government sought help from Sida, which resulted in a number of fact-finding and problem identification missions in 1990 91, the situation in the field of pharmaceuticals was getting increasingly precarious with extensive self-medication and a proliferation of substandard and fake drugs.
