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The general population and vulnerable groups with particularly low health literacy will likely struggle to understand this information.»

«Particular attention sometimes falls on one vulnerable group with especially complex needs — gay Church of England bishops.

In keeping with other research, 30 children in foster care, who make up around 8 % of the cohort, were found to be a particularly vulnerable group with almost half meeting criteria for high risk of emotional or behavioural problems.

Services are normally restricted to symptomatic, help - seeking individuals, but a vulnerable group with cluster B disorders can be identified early are in care during childhood and enter the criminal justice system when young.

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«The U.S. has obviously been clear about where it stands with the Paris Agreement, but it is heartening that 19 other countries reaffirmed their commitment to the agreement,» said Thoriq Ibrahim, minister of energy and environment for the Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States, a group of countries vulnerable to the effects of global warming.

That centralizes the potential for and magnitude of abuse, with Big Data used to discriminate against groups, steer vulnerable people to financial scams, and meddle in U.S. elections.

That normal includes potential long - term health effects from wildfire smoke, especially for vulnerable groups like pregnant women, infants, the elderly, and people with respiratory impairment, Henderson said.

While behaviour change and decongestion are often the objectives, the decongestion charge should not come at the expense of vulnerable groups, such as low income individuals and families, persons with disabilities and seniors.

The UK has made a commitment to receive 20,000 vulnerable people seeking protection and the government is looking for community groups to partner with to house and support some of them.

If we introduce euthanasia / PAS as a legal, medical option, would we risk discriminating against vulnerable groups — such as those with AIDS, Alzheimer's or spinal cord injuries — that are perceived as burdens on the system and on society?

Over the course of three seasons, the crew also questioned American Imperialism when the crew arms a group of vulnerable primitive aliens with flintlock rifles, possibly sparking generations of conflict, and one cast member even references botched foreign policy «of the early 20th century.»

These habits are all the more necessary in modern societies where a high degree of interdependence among strangers co-exists with an economic system that emphasizes individual profit maximization and a political system vulnerable to interest - group activity.

In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

At the same time, it is self - evident that food products with no history of safe use must be subjected to the highest standards of risk assessment before the most vulnerable groups of the population are exposed to it.

Our vision is to provide a safe, accessible service that makes it easy for a previously marginalized and vulnerable group of people to interact with the world, while also being a driving force to promote genuine social progress in our society.

The Committee recommends that the Minister for Health and Ageing commission research into the effect of the advertising of food products with limited nutritional value on the eating behaviour of children and other vulnerable groups.

British Cycling has been working with the Vulnerable Road Users Group to seek to remove vulnerable road users from the reforms on the basis that they should be protected rather than Vulnerable Road Users Group to seek to remove vulnerable road users from the reforms on the basis that they should be protected rather than vulnerable road users from the reforms on the basis that they should be protected rather than penalised.

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.

FRAC has joined with a diverse group of national organizations to launch the Opportunity Starts at Home campaign to expand affordable housing options for America's most vulnerable communities.

The Dubai - based group Out of the Blues, which supports mothers with postnatal illness, warned that the law could criminalise women when they are at their most vulnerable.

FPEEG, the All - Party Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Group, is a coalition of cross party MPs and industry stakeholders committed to maintain awareness in Parliament of fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systems.

Historically, international agreements and frameworks related to humanitarian crises (such as International Humanitarian Law, the Hyogo Framework for Action, the Millennium Development Goals, the SPHERE Project, among others) have not directly mentioned persons with disabilities or have only addressed them as part of the broader category of «vulnerable groups.»

As such, humanitarian agencies will need to change to keep up with new communications realities, but some domains will remain distinctly familiar: complex humanitarian emergencies; politically challenging environments; forgotten, difficult and smaller crises; and most vulnerable groups in major disasters.

One in four people in care homes have diabetes (Sinclair et al 2001) Residents with diabetes living within institutional settings are a highly vulnerable and often neglected group..

Mrs Mahama does not travel abroad with as little as 2,000 Ghana Cedis to buy cheap items for orphanages and vulnerable groups as Manasseh wants us to believe, but donated expensive items such as ultra-modern ECG and X-ray machines, ambulances, computers, ultra-modern hospital beds, and other essential medical supplies.

Here's a fundraiser that sort of goes against the conventional wisdom that gay - rights groups wouldn't support the Senate Democratic conference now that same - sex marriage passed a Republican - led chamber with help from vulnerable GOP lawmakers.

Congress deplores the Coalition Government's ideologically driven obsession with «removing red tape» which is really an attempt to deny protections for workers and vulnerable groups in society.

The verdict from the UKSA, the official body tasked with ensuring government departments use statistics accurately and honestly, is another rebuff for a project which has been condemned for targeting an extremely rare problem while potentially disenfranchising vulnerable groups such as older people and the homeless, who might not have the necessary ID.

«It is to be hoped that the home secretary will act urgently to review her decision and engage constructively with Refugee Action and its partners to reach a decision which is fair and respects the right to dignity of one of the most vulnerable groups in our society.»

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.

(CNN)- A group supporting Democratic senators and Senate candidates says it's going up with a new television commercial defending Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina, who's considered vulnerable as she runs for re-election next year.

Blasting Congressman Jerrold Nadler for choosing to support a controversial nuclear accord with Iran, a group of Orthodox Jewish leaders promised tonight that the veteran Democrat would feel the full wrath of his constituents — and one even suggested Mr. Nadler would be vulnerable to a primary challenger.

The latter groups are particularly vulnerable because they return home with often dramatically reduced tolerance to opioids.

When and how to make contact with isolated tribes is a hotly contested issue among anthropologists and groups that aim to protect these vulnerable people.

This includes Extremism Risk Guidance 22 which identifies 22 «risk factors» for gauging whether individuals are vulnerable to engaging with terrorist groups or posing a security risk.

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.

Further trials are planned to document the efficacy and safety of the combination in patients infected with the other HCV genotypes and in particularly vulnerable groups, to enable a public health approach to the treatment of hepatitis C.

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.

But critics of AMFm — including the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) and Oxfam, a U.K. charity — argue that it's not clear how many of the drugs reached the most vulnerable group — children under age 5 in poor areas — and that, with malaria rates declining across Africa, many drugs must have gone to people who did not have malaria at all.

In Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Infants, children, the group most vulnerable to malaria, receive an antimalarial drug three times during the first year of life, along with routine vaccinations.

«The scariest part about it is that, from what we know so far, the species that are potentially the most vulnerable are some of our most widely distributed species,» explains Priya Nanjappa, an ecologist with the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies and head of the response division of the Bsal task force, a quasi-governmental group formed in June 2015.

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.

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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.

South of the border is the tall and imposing Dr. Jose Manuel Mireles, founder of a group called the Autodefensas, which overtakes vulnerable towns with automatic weapons until the citizens have a chance to arm themselves.

Cultural Caregiving Services must be accessed to the vulnerable groups — the oppressed, those with disabilities, those suffering from trauma, victims of war and disaster, the abandoned, the street kids, the out - of - school youth, the delinquent, the indigenous youth who feel helpless, excluded or desperate.

The case study illustrates how three groups of charter management organizations (CMOs)-- High Tech High in San Diego; Uncommon Schools, KIPP Foundation, and Achievement First in New York; and Match Education in Boston — saw big gaps in the traditional teacher education programs that left their aspiring teachers with no place to learn how to teach effectively in their specific schools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable students.

Although not without exceptions, the evidence generally indicates that more stringent graduation requirements reduced high school graduation rates among vulnerable groups, specifically low - achieving students (including those with learning disabilities), students of color, and urban low - income students.