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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.
Seth E Spielman, Joseph Tuccillo, David C Folch   +2 more
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Examining social vulnerability to flood of affordable housing communities in Nanjing, China: Building long-term disaster resilience of low-income communities

Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021
In the context of climate change and rapid urbanization, urban floods disasters occur frequently across the globe, and social vulnerability has become an important theoretical perspective for understanding the occurrence and response of flooding ...
Tao Liu, Yu Yuan, Chen Yi
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State-Level Social Vulnerability Index and Healthcare Access: The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey.

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2022
INTRODUCTION Access to health care is affected by social determinants of health. The social vulnerability index encompasses multiple social determinants of health simultaneously and may therefore be associated with healthcare access.
Mahmoud Al Rifai, Vardhmaan Jain, Safi U. Khan, Anupama Bk, J. Mahar, C. Krittanawong, S. Mishra, S. Dani, L. Petersen, S. Virani   +9 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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Profiles in social vulnerability: The association of social determinants of health with postoperative surgical outcomes.

Surgery, 2021
BACKGROUND The association of different social vulnerability subthemes (ie, socioeconomic status, household composition and disability, minority status and language, and housing and transportation) with surgical outcomes remains poorly defined.
A. Paro, J. M. Hyer, A. Díaz, D. Tsilimigras, T. Pawlik   +4 more
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Do underserved and socially vulnerable communities observe more crashes? A spatial examination of social vulnerability and crash risks in Texas.

Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2022
Understanding the relationship between social vulnerability and traffic crashes is a cornerstone for promoting social justice in transportation planning and policymaking.
Xiao Li, Siyu Yu, Xiao Huang, B. Dadashova, Wencong Cui, Zhe Zhang   +5 more
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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

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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