Nutrition and Vulnerable Groups

Reaching vulnerable groups

Welcome to the first edition of HEX for 2016. We have included some excellent papers, reporting on a range of clinical topics and research methodologies. The review article by Phillipson and colleagues on current practices to increase Chlamydia screening in the community evaluated the included interventions against social marketing national benchmark criteria. Despite the quality of evidence be...

COVID-19 Risk Perception and its Related Factors and Outcomes in Vulnerable Groups: A Systematic Review

Tuberculosis control in vulnerable groups.

a City and Hackney Primary Care Trust, St Leonard’s Hospital, Nuttal St, London, England. b Tuberculosis Programme, Pan-American Health Organization, Washington, DC, United States of America. Correspondence to Jose Figueroa-Munoz (e-mail: [email protected]). doi:10.2471/BLT.06.038737 (Submitted: 12 November 2006 – Revised version received: 1 August 2007 – Accepted: 10 August 2007 – Pu...

Vulnerable people, groups, and populations: societal view.

Vulnerability, the susceptibility to harm, results from an interaction between the resources available to individuals and communities and the life challenges they face. Vulnerability results from developmental problems, personal incapacities, disadvantaged social status, inadequacy of interpersonal networks and supports, degraded neighborhoods and environments, and the complex interactions of t...

Analysis of technics and types of vulnerable groups Problems construction by Tehran province NGOs

Introduction: Non-governmental organizations (NGO) are considered an inseparable part of today's world. Supporting NGOs as one of most important kind of NGOs that spread in Iran try to improve vulnerable groups situation. Main question of research is "what are the main social problems constructed by NGOs and with which technics do they constrauct the Social Problems?" Method: Main method of re...