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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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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 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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Protecting the Socially Vulnerable:

This contribution presents three case studies that examine how religious leaders in the Theban region tried to protect, or received requests to intervene for the sake of, socially vulnerable individuals in the years 600–630 on the basis of their - mostly Coptic - documents. For the monk-bishops Abraham of Hermonthis (ca.
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Social Protection and Vulnerability

2020
Abstract This chapter surveys the interlocking ensemble of public policy choices made in Australia around the beginning of the twentieth century, tracing the impact they have had over time. Policies of tariff protectionism, wage arbitration, racial exclusion, and social welfare were embedded in institutions.
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Social exclusion: migration and social vulnerability

2015
The homeless, the feminisation of poverty – a consequence of deteriorating quality of life for single parents; youth poverty and unemployment; the concentration of disadvantaged people in socially and culturally divided residential areas; a permanently out-of-work part of the population, whose income is decreasing at the same rate as unemployment ...
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Social and environmental vulnerabilities

2015
Madagascar has relatively high poverty levels, with 52 per cent of the urban population living below the poverty line (Table 4.5). In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 31.4 per cent of the population was unemployed in 2008. 41 In Malawi, around 24 per cent of Blantyre’s population live in poverty.
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Social Vulnerability

2023
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Social determinants of health and US cancer screening interventions: A systematic review

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2023
Ariella R Korn
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Social Vulnerability to Disasters

2013
Framing Social Vulnerability Understanding Social Vulnerability: Maureen Fordham, William E. Lovekamp, Deborah S.K. Thomas, and Brenda D. Phillips Theoretical Framing of Worldviews, Values, and Structural Dimensions of Disasters: Jean Scandlyn, Deborah S.K.
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