(A198) Bringing H1N1 Vaccinations to Vulnerable Populations

Vulnerable Populations: Vulnerable People

Vulnerable populations and the transition to adulthood.

D. 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 education, and by youth with physical disabiliti...

Giving Voice to Vulnerable Populations: Rogerian Theory

The human condition of vulnerability is a concept of vital concern to nurses, in that a large portion of nursing practice is spent either helping individuals who fi nd themselves in a vulnerable position or helping them avoid vulnerability. Nursing, however, has been slow in developing theoretical constructs of vulnerability within a nursing perspective (Spiers, 2000). Traditional defi nitions ...

Caring for vulnerable populations.

Acknowledgments The AHA Committee on Research would like to thank the following contributors who provided significant input in the committee's work:commercial use only. No part of this publication may be reproduced and distributed in any form without permission of the publisher, or in the case of third party materials, the owner of that content, except in the case of brief quotations followed b...

TB in Vulnerable Populations

This article analyzes the factors associated with vulnerability of the Ashaninka, the most populous indigenous Peruvian Amazonian people, to tuberculosis (TB). By applying a human rights-based analytical framework that assesses public policy against human rights standards and principles, and by offering a step-by-step framework for a full assessment of compliance, it provides evidence of the re...