Since March 2020, the Coronavirus has widely spread in Egypt and negatively affected people’s lives, especially vulnerable groups. The government, private sectors, social societies had played significant roles supporting needed groups to overcome crisis. present article studied Egyptian authorities’ measures implemented mitigate pandemic’s negative impact on groups—women, children, informal wor...

Introduction. Increasing concentrations of xenobiotics in the biosphere have induced growth microelementoses. The pathology is frequent among children as a result their adaptive insufficiency calling forth decrease nonspecific resistance. These tendencies make increasingly urgent need for development more efficient ways to correct environmentally determined conditions. Purpose: comparative study i...

Background Equity and social inclusion for vulnerable groups in policy development processes and resulting documents remain a challenge globally. Most often, the marginalization of vulnerable groups is overlooked in both the planning and practice of health service delivery. Such marginalization may occur because authorities deem the targeting of those who already have better access to healthcar...

OBJECTIVES To identify barriers that are common and unique to six selected vulnerable groups: low socioeconomic status; Indigenous; mental illness and substance abuse; homeless; prisoners; and at-risk youth. DESIGN A systematic review was carried out to identify the perceived barriers to smoking cessation within six vulnerable groups. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and PsycInfo were s...

BACKGROUND Health policies are important instruments for improving population health. However, experience suggests that policies designed for the whole population do not always benefit the most vulnerable. Participation of vulnerable groups in the policy-making process provides an opportunity for them to influence decisions related to their health, and also to exercise their rights. This paper ...

In this article the authors present a new concept, activeness, as dynamic psychological and cognitive state of effective engaged language learning. It is defined in terms investment, integration performance, empowers vulnerable students to exercise control their learning progress based on needs desired outcomes. argued that activeness has double didactic linguistic di...