Although most writers such as Alexander insist that vulnerability only has meaning in relation to one or another specific hazard and, indeed, that vulnerability is only ever revealed or realized after a hazard impact, I argue there is a special case. Hewitt (1983, p. 27) refers ...
Given the worldwide context of climate change, outbreaks, the recent pandemic and regional conflicts, changes in policies regarding containment and closure, closed or semi-closed social relationships may also have impacted physical and mental health status [41]. Therefore, it is of academic meaning ...
From the Alma-Ata Conference in 1978 to Astana Conferencein 2018, it is possible to identify clear changes in the underlying principles of primary healthcare (PHC), especially in shift in the meaning of rights, from "universal right to h... NEKE Silva,M Ventura,CA Paro - 《Cadernos De ...
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Moderator stands for the moderating variables used in this study, including government quality and low-carbon technology; the remaining variables represent the same meaning as in Eq. (1). 3.2. Variable measures and data sources 3.2.1. Explained variable In the analytical framework of climate ...
Measurement and Meaning : Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methods for the Analysis of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Latin America Over the past decade, the World Bank has evolved its analysis and reporting on poverty to a multi-dimensional view which includes issues of social disadvan... ...
Thus, vulnerability comes through as the inherent potential forresistance. It gains political value, not as a call for paternalistic intervention on behalf of so-called vulnerable groups or populations, but as the demand and defiance of people who assemble to resist. In this way, vulnerability can...
MeaningThe findings suggest that routine measurement of social vulnerability might assist in developing more comprehensive care models that integrate medical and social care for mental health and substance use disorders. Abstract ImportanceCommunity-level social vulnerability (SV) is associated with physical ...
Several proxies for risk and vulnerability are developed from the available data and discussed in terms of the meaning and implications of risk proxies. The numbers of people killed and otherwise affected by discrete climate-related natural disasters over the final decades of the twentieth century ...
6 Our focus on this population segment amounts to substantially more than a heterogeneity check because, as shown later, we find evidence of retirement spillover effects only among the people with LTHCs and not among those without LTHCs, meaning that such spillover effects arise in specific (...