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Vulnerability - ANSWER ✔✔susceptibility to actual or potential
stressors that may lead to an adverse effect
results from the interaction of internal and external factors that cause a
person to be susceptible to poor health
,vulnerable populations - ANSWER ✔✔those groups with increased
risk for adverse health outcomes
more likely than the general population to suffer from heath disparities
health disparities - ANSWER ✔✔the wide variations in health
services and health status among certain population groups
vulnerable population are more likely to.... - ANSWER ✔✔-develop
health problems as a result of exposure to risk or to have worse
outcomes from those health problems than the population as a whole
-be sensitive to risk factors bc they are often exposed to cumulative risk
factors
-results from combined effects of limited physical, environmental etc
resources
List of vulnerable population groups - ANSWER ✔✔-poor and
homeless persons
-pregnant adolescents
,-migrant workers
-severely mentally ill individuals
-substance abusers
-abused persons
-perons w/ communicable disease
-persons with HIV, HepB, STDS
-racial and ethnic minorities
Factors contributing to vulnerability - ANSWER ✔✔-social
determinants of health (economic status, poverty, lack of insurance)
-education
-environmental factors
-nutrition, stress
-prejudice
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, -health status (age, changes in normal physiology)
Outcomes of vulnerability - ANSWER ✔✔-neg or post
-often have worse health outcomes in terms of morbidity and mortality
-cycle to vulnerability (sometimes when one problem is solved, another
quickly emerges-->feelings of hopelessness)
Predictors of populations at risk - ANSWER ✔✔-social status: age,
sex, race
-social capitol: family structure, marital status, volunteer org, social
networks
**marriage usually is helpful but not in veterans returning to civilian life
-populations at risk: high, lower
-human capitol: schools, jobs, income, housing
Disempowerment - ANSWER ✔✔lack of power or control over critical
resources