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Evaluating social vulnerability indicators: criteria and their application to the Social Vulnerability Index

Natural Hazards, 2020
As a concept, social vulnerability describes combinations of social, cultural, economic, political, and institutional processes that shape socioeconomic differentials in the experience of and recovery from hazards. Quantitative measures of social vulnerability are widely used in research and practice.
Amy Schweikert, Seth Spielman, Joseph Tuccillo   +2 more
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Social Vulnerability: A Multidimensional Analysis

2010
Social vulnerability can be defined as a life-situation characterized by a multi-dimensional combination of factors of disadvantage and advantage, of inclusion and exclusion. Its distinctive feature is that weak and unstable integration in the main mechanisms of resource distribution in contemporary society places people in a situation of uncertainty ...
RANCI ORTIGOSA, COSTANZO, M. Migliavacca
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Social vulnerability

Social vulnerability is a topic of concern in many territories of the world. We conducted a systematic review in the international context, contributing to social vulnerability knowledge. This review examined the different approaches from various disciplines that might help understand the use of this concept. It was found that social vulnerability must
Peter Sammonds, Lisa Guppy, Ting Sun
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Frailty and Social Vulnerability

2015
Both intrinsic and extrinsic factors contribute to health. Intrinsic factors are familiar topics in health research and include medical conditions, medications, genetics and frailty, while extrinsic factors stem from social and physical environments. This chapter builds on others in this volume, in which a deficit accumulation approach to frailty has ...
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Social vulnerability in Colombia

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2020
Abstract In the last decade, with the increment of the occurrence of extreme meteorological events in Colombia, the disaster management field has grown aided by political intervention and investment. However, the country currently lacks a comprehensive integrated place-based assessment of social vulnerability that covers the entire territory.
D.J. Roncancio, S.L. Cutter, A.C. Nardocci   +2 more
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Social vulnerability and prenatal diagnosis

Journal of Perinatal Medicine
Abstract Objectives There are limited data on how neighborhood-level risk factors affect the likelihood of having prenatal diagnosis. Neighborhood social vulnerability can be quantified and ranked using the social vulnerability index (SVI), a tool that measures the cumulative effect of external ...
Insaf Kouba, Jaclyn Del Pozzo, Alejandro Alvarez, Nathan A. Keller, Alexis Palmer, Luis A. Bracero, Matthew J. Blitz   +6 more
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Explaining Social Vulnerability

2010
The aim of this final chapter is to identify the main social, economic and institutional factors responsible for social vulnerability. Social vulnerability is considered as a multi-dimensional phenomenon affecting contemporary post-industrial societies of Western Europe as a consequence of the emergence of new social risks in the past two decades.
RANCI ORTIGOSA, COSTANZO, B. Fiore, E. Pavolini   +2 more
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Assessing Social Vulnerability

2014
A critical piece, and often the most neglected piece, of resilience to disaster is the identification and mapping of a community’s social vulnerabilities. When disaster strikes, its impact is not just a function of its magnitude and where it strikes.
Jaimie Hicks Masterson, Walter Gillis Peacock, Shannon S. Van Zandt, Himanshu Grover, Lori Feild Schwarz, John T. Cooper   +5 more
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Social influence and vulnerability

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2008
AbstractRedish et al. outline 10 vulnerabilities in the decision-making system that increase the risks of addiction. In this commentary I examine the potential role of social influence in exploiting at least one of these vulnerabilities, and argue that the needs satisfied by social interaction may play a role in decision-making with regard to substance
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