South Africa: Vulnerable Persons and Groups in a Vulnerable Democracy — Can Forensic Medical Services Help to Ensure Justice in Critical Times?

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

Building Stones of Resilience of Vulnerable Older Persons

Introduction: Vulnerable older persons need sufficient resilience to deal with (age-related) adversities and safeguard their quality of life. In this study, we investigate which sources of strength vulnerable older persons use to deal adversities. Methods: This qualitative study is based on fifteen narratives of community-dwelling vulnerable older persons in Belgium, who were selected through ...

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...

Democracy in South Africa

Adam Ashforth arrived in Soweto more or less by accident in 1990. A historian preparing to do research on the transition to democracy in South Africa, he hired a room in the vast African township outside Johannesburg. He was adopted into his host family, and he has returned every year but one since 1990, making him perhaps the first professional researcher to write about Soweto on the basis of ...

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...