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Sustainable cities and society, 2021 Social distancing and particularly staying at home are effective public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The sheer scale of behavior changes across a mass population scale is unprecedented and will undoubtedly cause disproportionate hardships ...
Xinyu Fu, Wei Zhai
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Vulnerability of Social Institutions [PDF]
OECD Economic Policy Papers, 2014 Social institutions face many challenges. The recent economic crisis has provided a stress test as it has left a legacy of high unemployment and high government debt in many countries. It also lowered potential output and thus the revenue base for social protection schemes.
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Trends in social vulnerability to storm surges in Shenzhen, China [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2020 An evaluation of social vulnerability to storm surges is important for any coastal city to provide marine disaster preparedness and mitigation procedures and to formulate post-disaster emergency plans for coastal communities.
H. Yu +10 more
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Social vulnerability and short-term disaster assistance in the United States
, 2021 Short-term disaster assistance is an important component of federal disaster response in the United States, providing over $63 billion from 2007 to 2016.
O. Drakes +3 more
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Social Vulnerability and Mental Health Inequalities in the “Syndemic”: Call for Action
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 Covid-19 is referred to as a “syndemic,” i.e., the consequences of the disease are exacerbated by social and economic disparity. Poor housing, unstable work conditions, caste, class, race and gender based inequities and low incomes have a profound effect
R. Mezzina +4 more
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A systematic scoping review of the Social Vulnerability Index as applied to natural hazards
Natural HazardsSocial vulnerability approaches seek to identify social, economic, and political drivers that exacerbate environmental risks, and inform adaptation strategies that redress uneven vulnerabilities.
Mary Angelica Painter +7 more
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Sustainable cities and society, 2021 COVID-19 has significantly and unevenly impacted the United States, disproportionately affecting socially vulnerable communities. While epidemiologists and public health officials have suggested social distancing and shelter-in-place orders to halt the
S. Kashem +3 more
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Integrating social vulnerability into high-resolution global flood risk mapping
Nature CommunicationsHigh-resolution global flood risk maps are increasingly used to inform disaster risk planning and response, particularly in lower income countries with limited data or capacity.
Sean Fox +3 more
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MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated long-standing inequities in the social determinants of health (1-3). Ensuring equitable access to effective COVID-19 therapies is essential to reducing health disparities.
Jeremy A. W. Gold +12 more
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Infant Mortality in Socially Vulnerable Populations [PDF]
Annual Review of Public Health, 1988 Studies have shown for decades that certain subpopulations of infants, for example, those in poverty and in certain minority groups, are at substantially higher risk for illness and death than the national average. If mothers and infants of these “vulnerable populations” were as healthy as their “nonvulnerable” counterparts, as many as one third ...
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