With Access New Orleans, your visit will be an easy, enjoyable experience -- the hot, sultry city's exotic thrills, illicit temptations, and delightful excesses are laid out for your pleasure. New Orleans has been divided and organized into neighborhoods, so you know where you are and where you're headed. Unique color-coded and numbered entries allow you to discover the best: hotels • restaurants • Attractions • Shopping sights • Parks and Outdoor Spaces Large, easy-to-read maps with entry numbers keyed to text ensure that you will instantly find what you must not miss. Access is your indispensable walk-around guide to new orleans. Our writers live in and love the city, and they will lead you by the hand down the winding streets of each neighborhood, sharing the colorful sights, decadent haunts, and debauched delights only new orleans has to offer.
With ACCESS Seattle, your visit will be an easy, enjoyable experience. A city of breathtaking panoramas, bounded by water and washed over by rain, Seattle captures the imagination and is truly a treasure to discover. ACCESS Seattle has been divided and organized by neighborhoods, so you know where you are and where you're headed. Unique color-coded and numbered entries allow you to discover the best: Hotels Restaurants Attractions Shopping Sights Parks and Outdoor Spaces Large, easy-to-read maps show where each of these numbered listings islocated-ensuring that you will instantly find what you must not miss.
With Access Philadelphia, your visit will be an easy, enjoyable experience—the Liberty Bell, Rodin Museum, and world-famous cheesesteaks are at your fingertips. Philadelphia has been divided and organized into neighborhoods, so you know where you are and where you're headed. Unique color-coded and numbered entries allow you to discover the best: Hotels Restaurants Attractions Shopping sights Parks and Outdoor Spaces Large, easy-to-read maps with entry numbers keyed to text ensure that you will instantly find what you must not miss. Access is your indispensable walk-around guide to Philadelphia. Our writers, who live in and love the city, will lead you by the hand down the remarkable streets, sharing the unforgettable sights and pointing out the undiscovered gems and all the majestic landmarks that only Philadelphia has to offer.
Americans are accustomed to anecdotal evidence of the health care crisis. Yet, personal or local stories do not provide a comprehensive nationwide picture of our access to health care. Now, this book offers the long-awaited health equivalent of national economic indicators. This useful volume defines a set of national objectives and identifies indicatorsâ€"measures of utilization and outcomeâ€"that can "sense" when and where problems occur in accessing specific health care services. Using the indicators, the committee presents significant conclusions about the situation today, examining the relationships between access to care and factors such as income, race, ethnic origin, and location. The committee offers recommendations to federal, state, and local agencies for improving data collection and monitoring. This highly readable and well-organized volume will be essential for policymakers, public health officials, insurance companies, hospitals, physicians and nurses, and interested individuals.
There are more than 50 streets bearing the name Peachtree in greater Atlanta. Organized by neighborhood and filled with striking graphics and detailed maps, this ACCESS guide lets you see at a glance where you are, where you're headed, and what special attractions await you. ACCESS also tells you how to enjoy the SummerOlympic games--with or without a ticket.
With Access Seattle, your visit will be an easy, enjoyable experience—the Space Needle, Pike Place Market, and Mt. Rainier are at your fingertips. Access Seattle has been divided and organized into neighborhoods, so you know where you are and where you're headed. Unique color-coded and numbered entries allow you to discover the best: Hotels Restaurants Attractions Shopping sights Parks and Outdoor Spaces Large, easy-to-read maps with entry numbers keyed to text ensure that you will instantly find what you must not miss. Access is your indispensable walk-around guide to Seattle. Our writers, who live in and love the area, will lead you by the hand down the remarkable streets, the unforgettable sights and pointing out the undiscovered gems and all the majestic landmarks that only Seattle has to offer.
With Access New Orleans, your visit will be an easy, enjoyable experience -- the French Quarter, the Garden District, and the city's myriad excesses are laid out for your pleasure. New Orleans has been divided and organized by neighborhoods, so you know where you are and where you're headed. Unique color-coded and numbered entries allow you to discover the best: Hotels Restaurants Attractions Shopping Sights Parks and Outdoor Spaces Large, easy-to-read maps with entry numbers keyed to text ensure that you will instantly find what you must not miss. Access is your indispensable walk-around guide to New Orleans. Our writers, who live in and love the city, will lead you down the delightful streets of each neighborhood, sharing the colorful sights, pointing out the decadent haunts, and showing the splendor and debauchery that only New Orleanshas to offer.
Organized by neighborhood, the way travellers really explore, these popular guides feature an exciting new design that instantly communicates the unique ACCESS system.
New legal approaches, such as the European Union's 1996 Directive on the Legal Protection of Databases, and other legal initiatives now being considered in the United States at the federal and state level, are threatening to compromise public access to scientific and technical data available through computerized databases. Lawmakers are struggling to strike an appropriate balance between the rights of database rights holders, who are concerned about possible commercial misappropriation of their products, and public-interest users of the data such as researchers, educators, and libraries. A Question of Balance examines this balancing act. The committee concludes that because database rights holders already enjoy significant legal, technical, and market-based protections, the need for statutory protection has not been sufficiently substantiated. Nevertheless, although the committee opposes the creation of any strong new protective measures, it recognizes that some additional limits against wholesale misappropriation of databases may be necessary. In particular, a new, properly scoped and focused U.S. statute might provide a reasonable alternative to the European Union's highly protectionistic database directive. Such legislation could then serve as a legal model for an international treaty in this area. The book recommends a number of guiding principles for such possible legislation, as well as related policy actions for the administration.
Since 1968 the Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Compliance Report (known as the E&S survey) has been used to gather information about possible disparities in access to learning opportunities and violations of students' civil rights. Thirty-five years after the initiation of the E&S survey, large disparities remain both in educational outcomes and in access to learning opportunities and resources. These disparities may reflect violations of students' civil rights, the failure of education policies and practices to provide students from all backgrounds with a similar educational experience, or both. They may also reflect the failure of schools to fully compensate for disparities and current differences in parents' education, income, and family structure. The Committee on Improving Measures of Access to Equal Educational Opportunities concludes that the E&S survey continues to play an essential role in documenting these disparities and in providing information that is useful both in guiding efforts to protect students' civil rights and for informing educational policy and practice. The committee also concludes that the survey's usefulness and access to the survey data could be improved.
The 21 detailed neighborhood maps in this guide will help you immediately locate the hotels, restaurants, shops, and sight in Boston. Pack lightly and carry the best travel guides going: ACCESS. Arranged by neighborhood and featuring color-coded entries keyed to easy-to-read maps, ACCESS guides are designed to help you explore a neighborhood or an entire city in depth. You'll never get lost with an ACCESS guide in hand, but you may well be lost without one. So whether you are visiting Miami or Montreal, you'll need a sturdy pair of walking shoes and plenty of ACCESS.
The 19 detailed neighborhood maps in this guide will help you immediately locate the hotels, restaurants, shops, and sight in Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque. Pack lightly and carry the best travel guides going: ACCESS. Arranged by neighborhood and featuring color-coded entries keyed to easy-to-read maps, ACCESS guides are designed to help you explore a neighborhood or an entire city in depth. You'll never get lost with an ACCESS guide in hand, but you may well be lost without one. So whether you are visiting Miami or Montreal, you'll need a sturdy pair of walking shoes and plenty of ACCESS.
ACCESS just took the guesswork out of taking a cruise. Featuring the color-coded entries and easy-to-use maps and diagrams that is the ACCESS trademark, this complete guide to cruising contains everything readers should know before going out to sea. It includes a world map to give vacationers an overview of the routes followed by the various cruise lines; maps and entries for more than 200 ports of call; basic information on things to do before, during and after sailing; detailed specifications, including deck plans, of the top 20 ships; a "Bests" section with recommendations by cruise aficionados; and more.
The 28 detailed neighborhood maps in this guide will help you immediately locate the hotels, restaurants and sights of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
Packed with information on a host of shops, museums, and landmarks--and suggestions on more than 100 places to stay and 1,200 places to eat--this complete guide to the Big Apple can satisfy even the most voracious travel appetites.
Access to oral health care is essential to promoting and maintaining overall health and well-being, yet only half of the population visits a dentist each year. Poor and minority children are less likely to have access to oral health care than are their nonpoor and nonminority peers. Older adults, people who live in rural areas, and disabled individuals, uniformly confront access barriers, regardless of their financial resources. The consequences of these disparities in access to oral health care can lead to a number of conditions including malnutrition, childhood speech problems, infections, diabetes, heart disease, and premature births. Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations examines the scope and consequences of inadequate access to oral health services in the United States and recommends ways to combat the economic, structural, geographic, and cultural factors that prevent access to regular, quality care. The report suggests changing funding and reimbursement for dental care; expanding the oral health work force by training doctors, nurses, and other nondental professionals to recognize risk for oral diseases; and revamping regulatory, educational, and administrative practices. It also recommends changes to incorporate oral health care into overall health care. These recommendations support the creation of a diverse workforce that is competent, compensated, and authorized to serve vulnerable and underserved populations across the life cycle. The recommendations provided in Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations will help direct the efforts of federal, state, and local government agencies; policy makers; health professionals in all fields; private and public health organizations; licensing and accreditation bodies; educational institutions; health care researchers; and philanthropic and advocacy organizations.
Now featuring an exciting new design that instantly communicates the celebrated "Access" system, these ever-popular neighborhood guides are the choice for travelers who demand real access to their travel destinations. Organized by neighborhood, the way people really explore, the entries are keyed to can't-miss maps and color-coded to help users find restaurants (in red), hotels (in blue), shops and parks (in green) and attractions (in black) at a glance. In addition, these guides feature a wealth of tips and recommendations by well-known locals who point the way to the little-known treasures most travelers miss.
Characterized by beautiful adobe architecture, contemporary art galleries, excellent skiing, and nationally recognized museums of American Indian art and culture, the Southwest has become one of the hottest vacation spots. This ACCESS guide provides the most complete and convenient guide to the accommodations and attractions--plus insider tips--in the area.
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