A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g.‚ flood‚ tornado‚ hurricane‚ volcanic eruption‚ earthquake‚ heatwave‚ or landslide). It leads to financial‚ environmental or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the vulnerability of the affected population to resist the hazard‚ also called their resilience. if these disasters continues it would be a great danger for the earth.[1] This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability
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Vulnerable Population: Homeless Priscilla Cabreza HCS/531 January 23‚ 2012 Debbie Vaughn Vulnerable Population: Homeless Introduction Many factors can affect the delivery of health care. It is believed that environmental‚ political‚ economic‚ medical‚ demographic location‚ social‚ cultural‚ and spiritual factors can affect certain population groups and can make these groups more vulnerable than the general population. The question of who is vulnerable and what makes an individual vulnerable
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Vulnerable Populations in Current Events NUR/440 January 24‚ 2010 Vulnerable Populations in Current Events Smith‚ Tingle‚ and Twiss (2010) estimate in the year 2030‚ 20% of all Americans will be elderly adults. This is a vulnerable population that will have barriers including transportation‚ mobility‚ financial‚ and medical. As this vulnerable population continues to age‚ they often find it difficult to ask for help‚ which further increases the barriers they must overcome. Defining a Vulnerable
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Vulnerable populations Despite efforts and goals in the United States to reduce or eliminate disparities in healthcare by 2010‚ significant disparities‚ including risk factors‚ access to healthcare‚ morbidity‚ and mortality‚ continues in vulnerable populations. For example‚ studies find that Americans living in poverty are much more likely to be in fair or poor health and have disabling conditions‚ and are less likely to have used many types of healthcare. I believe that more effort
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Population health is the aggregation of various approach to health care that determines the health outcome of a group of individuals (Nash‚ JoAnne‚ Fabius‚ & Pracilio‚ 2011). Population health brings together the total quality of health of individuals in the community‚ considering the disparities in cultures‚ socioeconomical status‚ demographics‚ etc. The outcome of health of individuals in a giving population is highly determined by the policies that govern the healthcare delivery and care interventions
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A case manger is a professional that handles and works with specific populations. Populations in need are multiple‚ and various; a case manger helps them to achieve their goals‚ see the brighter side of their obscure‚ and complicated situations‚ and directs them to the right resources and workshops. The professional supports abandoned‚ and abused children to become a reliable and functional element in the society. A case manger helps also people with disabilities to regain their routine movements
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Population of Elk (Cerphus elaphus) have been fluctuating in certain areas across North America for various reasons. One of the reasons includes their reintroduction to East Tennessee (Murrow 2007). Fluctuating populations create a need for research on elk for more effective and efficient use of resources by wildlife managers‚ and to monitor how well they are transitioning. Capture research has been conducted on two of the four current subspecies of elk. The two subspecies are Roosevelt Elk (Cervus
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Population Health Proposal Population Health Proposal Introduction In today’s changing healthcare landscape‚ health systems will need to become population health managers and remain financially viable. In order to accomplish this‚ the leadership team will have to attain a comprehensive economic perspective. This requires integration of payer‚ physician‚ health system and patient considerations to understand the financial impact on the system as a whole. Economic awareness and understanding
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erable population Vulnerable Populations Karl Brennan Health Assessment and Promotion of Vulnerable Populations NUR 440 Vulnerable Population My definition of a vulnerable population would be a group of individuals or peoples regardless of race and ethnicity‚ that have become a concern to the healthcare community and people at large due to health disparities or the lack of equality between a peoples and appropriate medical care‚ treatment and education‚ of which most of us take for granted
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has three major islands 2. Basketball is a very popular sports in our country. 3. Hans Christian Andersen is an author of classic children’s stories. 4. “The Little Match Girl” is a beautiful story. 5. Some modern appliances contribute to the depletion of the ozone layer. II.READING A.Stem Option Variety Directions: Write the missing last two letters of the words given below. Make sure that the completed words fit the description of the phrases. Write the whole word on the sheet provided.
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