The phrase
"vulnerable populations" refers to groups of people who are at a higher risk of facing challenges or harm, such as physical or emotional difficulties. These groups may include children, elderly individuals, individuals with disabilities, low-income communities, or those who face discrimination or social isolation.
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vulnerable populations in our world today involves special consideration of ethical guidelines and the ability to make ethical decisions often under the pressures of time and competing ethical demands.
Working
with vulnerable populations in our world today involves special consideration of ethical guidelines and the ability to make ethical decisions often under the pressures of time and competing ethical demands.
The money is aimed at providing wage increases over the next six years to direct care workers, who provide support for the developmentally disabled and
other vulnerable populations.
This barrier causes frustration and creates additional levels of hardship
on vulnerable populations already struggling with significant levels of poverty.
This search is particularly critical to organizations that serve
vulnerable populations such as children, the elderly and those being treated in healthcare settings.
For
especially vulnerable populations, we need to better understand the challenges they face and how to be responsive to their needs to ensure they thrive and learn.
• While overall exam scores are going up, the achievement gaps remain and drop out rates are increasing particularly
among vulnerable populations.
In addition, the reports suggest the program can be successfully replicated in other communities and could serve as a nationwide model for
helping vulnerable populations, particularly immigrants, achieve economic stability.
As heat - trapping greenhouse gases build up in the atmosphere, heat waves come more often, potentially killing
vulnerable populations like the poor and the elderly.
The fact is, we need to explore a range of research avenues in
vulnerable populations around the world to learn the best ways to the spread of disease.
Significant impacts resulting from climate change are already evident, and they pose increasing risks for
many vulnerable populations and regions.
Public justice education remains an important means of
providing vulnerable populations with tools necessary to navigate terrain often understood to be colonial, alien and stacked against them.
We must continue to
keep vulnerable populations a priority, such as homeless youth, students from low - income families, students of color, and other historically underserved youth.
Rising temperatures and extreme weather will cause food shocks that will hit the most
vulnerable populations even harder than previously projected, the study says.
While some promising compromises were made, the absence of a strong commitment to slash greenhouse gas emissions and help
vulnerable populations adapt to climate change was evident in the conference's 39 decisions.
She has developed a research and career focus on occupational and environmental health for high - risk, low -
wage vulnerable populations.
These things allow us to provide world - class primary care and coordinated care to the most
vulnerable population moderate - to low - income seniors who have complex chronic diseases.
Successful schools are places in which all individuals are supported and protected, and the specific needs
of vulnerable populations are addressed.
Her research interests include promoting child well - being through early intervention and prevention, particularly
among vulnerable populations.
These laws are put in place to
protect vulnerable populations and ensure that those in vulnerable positions are protected even when they are unable to protect themselves.
The author does an amazing job of providing very practical tools while offering encouragement and support to a
very vulnerable population.
Given that money to
help vulnerable populations adapt has been ad hoc and insufficient, there is little optimism for funds being made available for compensation.
Removing the most
vulnerable populations from a very dangerous environment — kids, women and mentally ill people — is a key part, but there are other factors to be considered as well.
Participants» practical experiences included dealing with problematic clients, receiving guidance from mentors and colleagues, and ultimately serving
vulnerable populations who needed legal assistance.
Hunting, logging, mining and disease are taking a terrible toll on the greatest of the great apes, and if things continue as they are, they may be reduced to nothing more than a series of small, highly
vulnerable populations within decades.
«Immi was created by the Immigration Advocates Network and Pro Bono Net, who are dedicated to increasing access to justice for low - income immigrants and other
vulnerable populations through innovative and effective technology, with support from Open Society Foundations, the MacArthur Foundation, and other donors.»
Phrases with «vulnerable populations»