CHCs typically serve in underserviced, low-income populations and regularly offer a series of health promotion programs for their communities.
Because of its province-wide coverage, this means that data for areas with limited access to emergency departments and family physicians will be collected, thereby providing new information on an underserviced subset of the population.
"You've got high growth rates and relatively large populations that are underserviced," said Colin Coleman, the head of Goldman Sachs's sub-Saharan Africa team.
Another underserviced market is the rural population.
Currently these underserviced areas are classified based on population (count and density), travel time to a basic referral centre, and travel time to an advanced referral centre [ 19].
But the influx of people has long outstripped the capacity of border towns and cities to provide for their citizens, and a large percentage of the population lives in sprawling, underserviced shantytowns.
A number of YMSM sub-populations were identified who may be unreached or underserviced in HIV testing services.
By working with local community organizations and an active national Non-Governmental Organization, Acción Ecológica, the University of Cuenca, in partnership with the UASB and UBC launched (in December 2010) a new form of "eco-health centre" (Clinica Ambiental del Sur) based on the linking of prevention at a population level with primary care clinical attention in underserviced areas.
3 5 NOSM's mission statement includes a mandate to be socially accountable to the needs and the diversity of the populations of Northern Ontario', and to actively involve the 'Aboriginal, Francophone, remote, rural and underserviced communities' of Northern Ontario.
Mike Davis's provocative 2006 meditation "Planet of Slums" delivers a cold shower of statistics, estimating that at least a third of the global urban population now lives in slums, with over a billion people crammed into exceedingly underserviced urban peripheries in Africa, South America, and Asia.
