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THE HOMELESS AS A VULNERABLE POPULATION
Nursing Clinics of North America, 1999The homeless population is a social group that is vulnerable because the homeless are at an increased risk for adverse health-related outcomes. Understanding the nature of homelessness and the relationship between resource availability, relative risks, and health status is critical for nurses to diagnose and treat health-related problems in this ...
A J, Strehlow, T, Amos-Jones
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Vulnerable populations in healthcare
Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, 2013This review is designed to update readers on recent discussions and research regarding vulnerable populations in medicine, including patients who are socioeconomically disadvantaged, queer, in prison or labeled with a stigmatizing complex medical disease.Recent studies have more closely examined the effects of being part of a vulnerable population ...
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Vulnerable Populations in Research
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 2010Clinical research studies, both nursing and medical, occur in many critical care units. As with any clinical study, it is necessary to obtain informed consent from any person participating in the study. Although many patients are able to agree or refuse to participate in the study, many are unable to do so for a variety of reasons.
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Vulnerable Populations and the Transition to Adulthood
The Future of Children, 2010D. Wayne Osgood, E. Michael Foster, and Mark E. Courtney examine the transition to adulthood for youth involved in social service and justice systems during childhood and adolescence. They survey the challenges faced by youth in the mental health system, the foster care system, the juvenile justice system, the criminal justice system, and special ...
E. Michael Foster +2 more
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Research on Vulnerable Populations [PDF]
The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1989 In this autobiographical account, the author discusses her life and career experiences and how these relate to her work in community organizing and social services. The author's own sense of marginality, which originated in her being a dark-skinned, white, female member of a North Carolina family, formed the basis of her concerns about populations ...
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Spatial Mismatch, Poverty, and Vulnerable Populations
2013Spatial mismatch relates the unemployment and poverty of vulnerable population groups to their remoteness from job opportunities. Although the intuition initially applied to African Americans in US inner cities, spatial mismatch has a broader validity beyond the sole US context.
Gobillon, Laurent, Selod, Harris
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Fieldwork with vulnerable populations
Interactions, 2014Ethical implications for human-computer interaction ...
Heather Molyneaux +2 more
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Vulnerable Populations with Diabetes Mellitus
Nursing Clinics of North America, 2006This review of the literature on vulnerable populations with diabetes identifies trends, summarizes major findings, and recommends strategies to fill gaps in the state of the science. For the purposes of this article "vulnerable populations" refers to members of diverse racial and ethnic groups, people of low-income, and those who live in rural and ...
Alexandra A. García +1 more
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Vulnerability of Coastal Populations
2012Climate change is a major threat to coastal populations around the world. This chapter starts by briefly describing the main effects of global climate change on coastal areas, such as the risk of flooding, the permanent inundation of inhabited areas, and salinisation of coastal groundwater resources.
Hans-Martin Füssel, Hans-Martin Füssel
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