Identity cards may exclude vulnerable groups from health care, says BMA

Sharing care data could save lives of vulnerable children, hospital leader says.

Changing Health Care for Vulnerable Older Adults

Four papers discuss the relative influence of scientific, societal, and/or public policy upon the care of vulnerable older adults. Each paper addresses a program of research, an aspect of which influences the quality of health provided. Although the focus of each program of research is different, a common theme is improvement in health care provided for older adults. A second theme is the suppo...

Getting health care to vulnerable communities.

News Getting health care to vulnerable communities More research is needed into why vulnerable communities fail to access public health-care services even when these are available. This lack of access proved to be tragic for Mumbai slum-dweller Savita Das and her family. faced a decision no woman should have to make. Savita's 10-month-old daughter had fallen into the dirty floodwaters and urgen...

Right to health care for vulnerable migrants.

www.thelancet.com Vol 370 September 8, 2007 827 WHO, and we hope that these can be built on. We also agree that WHO needs to collaborate with others and that there are circumstances under which rapid processes are needed. However, systematic reviews should be used to inform those processes whenever possible, and when systematic reviews are not available, the evidence that was used and the metho...

Social Protection in Health Care and Vulnerable Population Groups in Serbia

Social protection refers to a set of policy measures to protect individuals, especially the critically poor, from financial losses due to high-risk events, such as natural disasters, social risks like unemployment, war or unexpected financial shocks, and political risks like discrimination of minorities in conflict zones (1–3). In terms of health, social protection includes protection against h...