Rammya Mathew: Reshaping healthcare for vulnerable people

Vulnerable Populations: Vulnerable People

Are People Risk Vulnerable?

The paper reports on a within-subject experiment, with substantial monetary incentives, designed to test wether or not people are risk-vulnerable. In the experiment, subjects face a simple portfolio choice problem in which they have to invest part of their wealth in a safe and a risky asset. We elicit risk vulnerability by observing each subject’s portfolio choice in two different contexts that...

social security: offering welfare opportunities for the vulnerable people.

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Microbiological Food Safety for Vulnerable People

Foodborne pathogens are more likely to cause infection and to result in serious consequences in vulnerable people than in healthy adults. People with some increase in susceptibility may form nearly 20% of the population in the UK and the USA. Conditions leading to increased susceptibility are listed. The main factors leading to foodborne disease caused by major pathogens are outlined and exampl...

The Vulnerable Elders Survey: a tool for identifying vulnerable older people in the community.

OBJECTIVES To develop a simple method for identifying community-dwelling vulnerable older people, defined as persons age 65 and older at increased risk of death or functional decline. To assess whether self-reported diagnoses and conditions add predictive ability to a function-based survey. DESIGN Analysis of longitudinal survey data. SETTING A nationally representative community-based surv...