Sentences with phrase «by vulnerable groups»

Conducting a critical interpretive synthesis of the literature on access to healthcare by vulnerable groups
«It will be important to address the barriers to active engagement in the [renewable energy] transition underway, as experienced by vulnerable groups
Together all of this could «help avert most of the negative health impacts experienced by vulnerable groups, whilst still promoting changes toward diets that are more environmentally sustainable.»

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The group said that it would release the supposedly stolen information if the agency failed to fix its vulnerable systems and pay an undisclosed sum by Friday.
In that meeting of CEOs in New York, by asking the convener of the group to start the exercise, her response gave the rest of the group permission to be vulnerable.
She said she doesn't want any groups of students or young workers unintentionally left behind by whatever changes the Liberals ultimately decide upon, but suggested that future changes would look to target vulnerable populations like indigenous youth and new immigrants, who have a harder time accessing the job market.
KS), which make up the Hyundai Motor Group, have not been directly criticized by Trump but they may have felt vulnerable because among major brands, they have one of the lowest ratios of cars built in the United States to cars sold.
Facebook has created bubbles around users that contrary ideas — and even facts — can not penetrate, empowering groups of like - minded people to share emotionally charged ideas on a platform that is vulnerable to exploitation by bad actors.
Third, direct help of the children, by pastoral counseling, Alateen group participation, and the other means described in the last chapter can enhance their mental health and thus make them less vulnerable to alcoholism a decade or so hence.
As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.
«We are saddened by the accounts of deplorable behaviour from a group of individuals who have abused their power, exploited their position, and sought to subvert systems designed to protect vulnerable people in Haiti,» the charity stated.
Keeping them busy in healthy activities provides them with positive peer groups and keeps them from hanging around and being vulnerable to poor choices suggested by others.
Parents and teachers should be aware of the falsehood of the claims made by SPUC, and the government should be more pro-active in preventing groups that persistently make false claims of this nature from having access to vulnerable children, especially in schools.»
Many members were dismayed by the party leadership's decision to abstain on the recent welfare bill, and asked what Labour is for, if not to try to protect vulnerable groups.
These ex-FARC members will also be vulnerable to recruitment (by force or willingly) by other violent non-state groups.
Martínez, who is a member of the advocacy group Make the Road New York (MRNY), said that the elderly and the sick figure among the most vulnerable on the U.S. territory devastated by Hurricane Maria.
Prisoners also targeted by # 10.7 m investment in researching how to stop spread of transmissions among vulnerable groups
Human rights groups warned that trafficked people, domestic abuse survivors and vulnerable children would be affected by the move.
«Vulnerable groups, who were not the intended targets of the reforms and are not able to respond by moving house or finding a job, are suffering,» committee chair Anne Begg said.
«We are clear that the yardsticks for testing the credibility and reliability of victims in sexual abuse cases do not serve the police or prosecutors well and risk leaving an identifiable group of vulnerable victims unprotected by the criminal law.
There should also improvement in the provision for vulnerable groups, including pregnant women, nursing mothers, persons with disability and the aged, by giving them priority to cast their votes, the Declaration said.
The large sample size — and additional details provided by users — allowed the researchers to pinpoint which demographics were most vulnerable to search engine manipulation: Divorcees, Republicans, and subjects who reported low familiarity with the candidates were among the easiest groups to influence, whereas participants who were better informed, married, or reported an annual household income between $ 40,000 and $ 50,000 were harder to sway.
«It improves international security by allowing nongovernmental actors to monitor the actions of nations,» says Hitchens, who points to Amnesty International; that group has launched eyesondarfur.org, a Web site that broadcasts satellite imagery of 12 vulnerable villages in war - torn western Sudan, empowering the public to document atrocities and track the movement of refugees and troops.
Vinny Smith added: «The educational package has been piloted by paediatricians and we hope that it can ultimately improve outcomes for this vulnerable age group
If countries have enough vaccine, they can reduce disease and death by vaccinating groups at higher risk, such as pregnant women, those with chronic health conditions, or even all healthy young adults between 15 and 49 years old, the age group that appears most vulnerable.
How do you monitor a vulnerable shorebird species when its breeding areas are scattered across lands managed by a patchwork of state agencies, federal agencies, and non-profit conservation groups?
«[Brazil's] borders are hard to control and its extraordinary biodiversity is often seen as easy money by trafficking networks,» says Juan Carlos Cantú, a biologist in Mexico City who manages the Mexico office of Defenders of Wildlife, a conservation group in Washington, D.C. Birds are especially vulnerable, and parrots top the list of threatened species because of the high demand for them in the pet market.
«This core group could be less vulnerable than their real - world counterparts to disruption by law enforcement,» Duxbury said.
However, this pattern was accounted for by the tendency of polygyny to be most common in ecologically vulnerable and marginalized ethnic groups.
A vaccine would be especially effective in people who have never been exposed to the disease before, or who lost their childhood immunity by leaving malaria - stricken areas, Lanar says, because these groups are more vulnerable to very severe forms of the illness than those who are partially immune.
(June 17, 2015, The Condor: Ornithological Applications)-- How do you monitor a vulnerable shorebird species when its breeding areas are scattered across lands managed by a patchwork of state agencies, federal agencies, and non-profit conservation groups?
The second step involves expansion of health coverage of high - priority services to everyone, and the third step is to eliminate out - of - pocket payments by increasing mandatory, progressive prepayment with pooling of funds to ensure that disadvantaged groups and vulnerable populations are not left behind.
A new study into collective actions in support of vulnerable groups — including asylum seekers and refugees — is being led by the University of Leicester, in collaboration with the Université de Nantes.
Lastly, health and hygiene education taught by local women teaches women and children (the two most vulnerable groups when it comes to any social justice issue!)
The characters are an entertaining group of misfits, of particular note is central protagonist and narrator Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with aspirations of stability, and of happiness in his life, but who is utterly unable to survive without «one more hit», the violent and psychotic Begbie (Robert Carlyle), who refuses to take heroin but makes up for not doing drugs by «doing people» instead, and the childlike Spud (Ewan Bremner), the innocent fool of the group, and the most vulnerable to peer pressure.
As the group nears the lighthouse, the women become increasingly vulnerable to the entropy of the Shimmer, one by one merging with the ecosystem and its crashing waves of brutality.
The audacity of hope won the 2008 Democratic primary, yet we are still living in the shadow of the vicious realignment of the American electorate, provoked by the media's negative appeals to race and gender and the right - wing propaganda that bashes vulnerable groups... Real hope is grounded in a particularly messy struggle and it can be betrayed by naïve projections of a better future that ignore the necessity of doing the real work.
This is England doesn't really condemn gangs, as they are shown as having some positive attributes as well, but it does portray them as highly vulnerable to being usurped by stronger influences that can turn them from a group of friends to a radical wing of a fascist organization.
It revealed peaks in cyberbullying at age 10 - 11 and 14 - 15; different patterns of behaviour experienced by boys and girls; some very vulnerable groups of young people who need extra support.
Though my colleague group was not facilitated by that school's administration, the group was helpful — it allowed us to be vulnerable and truly hear others» perspectives.
And one way we are doing that is by empowering and engaging parents of our most vulnerable students, as well as working with local leaders and civil rights groups, in the fight to improve their child's elementary and secondary education and helping them to hold school systems accountable when it comes to their children's future.
Given the collapse of the Campaign for High School Equity (which once served as the convening body for civil rights - based reformers) and the efforts by the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers to co-opt such groups by peddling a version of accountability that lets states, school operators, and adults off the hook for failure, Ed Trust deserves praise for rallying so many civil rights players to stand up for our most - vulnerable children.
«Over the past several years, the Boston School Committee has passed budgets that have repeatedly harmed and dispersed our low - income and vulnerable students,» he said, reading from a statement issued by the group.
The decision was strongly condemned by civil rights groups, who said that it would harm already highly vulnerable students, but it was applauded by conservatives, who said the guidelines violated the safety and privacy of all other students.
The EPI research, commissioned by the Ambition School Leadership charity, also reveals that one of the most vulnerable groups of pupils — those with special needs — do not make it into leading academy trusts in such large numbers.
So with great deliberations we decided to make it a private group attempting to screen in those who are genuinely interested, and not those who join for promoting their work by hook or by crook, and those who are bent upon stalking vulnerable individuals.
At a time when Soviet Russians felt vulnerable to and threatened by fascism on the one hand and Western democracy on the other, Stalin and a loyal group of followers stepped up to take literal and editorial control of Pravda, the Bolshevik newspaper.
Vulnerable Native Breeds are a group of dog breeds originating in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and identified by The Kennel Club (KC) as having annual registration numbers of 300 puppies or fewer.
This large - scale group show, co-curated by artist Laura Morrison, takes American writer Donald Barthelme's short story of the same name as a provocative starting point to consider how current modes of expression assume the distanced observer and represent, protect and expose the vulnerable subject.
COOPER COLE is pleased to present Terribly Vulnerable and Terribly Hard, a group exhibition curated by Ashton Cooper.
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