Vulnerable populations. Working With Street Children: Monitoring and Evaluation of a Street Children Project, 2002. No project is ever complete without monitoring and evaluation. Important lessons from any intervention help to shape the course of future work and avoids duplication of effort. This handbook is therfore complementary to the Street Children Training package produced by WHO in 2000. It is designed to be used by street educators, as well as other people working with street children.
http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/vulnerable_pop/en/
Children, pregnant women, elderly people, malnourished people, and people who are ill or immunocompromised, are particularly vulnerable when a disaster strikes, and take a relatively high share of the disease burden associated with emergencies.
http://www.who.int/environmental_health_emergencies/vulnerable_groups/en/
Vulnerability to environmental hazards is much influenced by household income and assets, gender, the quality of housing and basic services, and environmental health risks within the workplace. So, among the most vulnerable groups are: 1  Individuals/households living in poor quality homes and neighbourhoods that lack adequate provision for water, sanitation, drainage and garbage removal and as such also lack safe indoor and outdoor living and play environments.
http://web.mit.edu/urbanupgrading/urbanenvironment/issues/vulnerable-groups.html
Encouraging confident, healthy communities. Community development is a way of strengthening civil society by prioritising the actions of communities, and their perspectives in the development of social, economic and environmental policy.
http://www.scdc.org.uk/who/what-is-community-development/
Deliver high quality, culturally competent, comprehensive primary care, as well as supportive services such as health education, translation, and transportation that promote access to health care. Provide services regardless of patients’ ability to pay and charge for services on a sliding fee scale.
http://bphc.hrsa.gov/about/what-is-a-health-center/index.html
Women are more vulnerable than men to many environmental hazards because of gender relations (i.e. as a result of the particular social and economic roles that women have, determined by social, economic and political structures).
http://web.mit.edu/urbanupgrading/urbanenvironment/issues/vulnerable-groups.html
Health centers deliver care to the Nation’s most vulnerable individuals and families, including people experiencing homelessness, agricultural workers, residents of public housing, and the Nation’s veterans.
http://bphc.hrsa.gov/about/what-is-a-health-center/index.html
Health centers are community-based and patient-directed organizations that deliver comprehensive, culturally competent, high-quality primary health care services.
http://bphc.hrsa.gov/about/what-is-a-health-center/index.html
What is Community Development? Community development is a way of strengthening civil society by prioritising the actions of communities, and their perspectives in the development of social, economic and environmental policy.
http://www.scdc.org.uk/who/what-is-community-development/
Environmental health in emergencies. Vulnerable groups. Vulnerability is the degree to which a population, individual or organization is unable to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impacts of disasters. Environmental health in emergencies and disasters: a practical guide.
http://www.who.int/environmental_health_emergencies/vulnerable_groups/en/
what is a vulnerable community
Vulnerability is the degree to which a population, individual or organization is unable to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impacts of disasters.