THE DUNMORE DEPARTURE: SECTION 1 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...

Fungal infections of the CNS - Section 1

While fungal infections of the CNS are relatively rare, they have become more common with the increasing number of individuals who are immunocompromised due to HIV/AIDS, immunosuppressive therapies, invasive diagnosis and treatment methods, and organ transplants. CNS fungal infections present many diagnostic and therapeutic challenges and are associated with a high mortality rate. Cryptococcal ...