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Frailty and Social Vulnerability
2015Both 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 PROTECTION, VULNERABILITY AND POVERTY
Research Papers in Economics, 2014WP 2014-20 November ...
Kanbur, Ravi, Kanbur, Ravi
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The social vulnerability approach for social impact assessment
Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2018Abstract The Social Impact Assessment (SIA) literature has highlighted the need to focus attention on the most vulnerable groups to improve the management of socio-environmental risk. However, methodological proposals to introduce vulnerability in SIAs are still incipient. The aim of this article is to present a proposal to analyze the role of social
Emilio Climent-Gil +2 more
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Social exclusion: migration and social vulnerability
2015The 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 ...
Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Karin Krifors And
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Social and Climate Change Vulnerability
2020The chapter examines social vulnerability and exclusion in Bangladesh encompassing a broad set of concerns. People may be excluded from many domains of life—social, economic, political, civil or spatial—and the relative importance of each domain depends on the local contexts.
Mustafa K. Mujeri, Neaz Mujeri
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Social vulnerability and prenatal diagnosis
Journal of Perinatal MedicineAbstract 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 +6 more
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Social and environmental vulnerabilities
2015Historically, Africa has always faced an uneven climate with extreme and severe weather events, floods, heatwaves and droughts. However, extreme weather events have recently become more frequent and Central Africa is expected to become more vulnerable to climate change in future.
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Vulnerabilities compounded by social institutions
International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 2012How can social institutions complicate and worsen vulnerabilities of particular individuals or groups? We begin by explicating how certain diagnoses within mental health and medicine operate as interactive kinds of labels and how such labels can create institutional barriers that hinder one’s capacity to achieve wellbeing. Interactive-kind modeling is
Laura Guidry-Grimes, Elizabeth Victor
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Gis and Social Vulnerability Analysis
2001Vulnerability to natural hazards is spatially variable, and these variations are not necessarily in direct proportion to physical risk. Other variables come into play, including those related to the nature of the hazard, in this case flash floods, and those related to socio-economic and land use variables, and all of these might be influenced by ...
Thomas A. Evans, Burrell E. Montz
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Social Vulnerability Mapping for Delhi
2016Marginalization of people in the process of globalization led to increase social vulnerability. This paper addresses peripheralization of social vulnerability in national capital territory. It is based on the analyses of mission convergence data of 1.1 million households across 274 municipal wards of Delhi.
Sunita Kumari, Milap Punia
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