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Not the usual suspects: adressing layers of vulnerability
(Wiley, 2013-07)
This paper challenges the traditional account of vulnerability in healthcare which conceptualizes vulnerability as a list of identifiable subpopulations. This list of "usual suspects", focusing on groups from lower resource ...
Identifying and evaluating layers of vulnerability - a way forward
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2019-06)
Vulnerability is a key concept for research ethics and public health ethics. This term can be discussed from either a conceptual or a practical perspective. I previously proposed the metaphor of layers to understand how ...
‘Vulnerability’, an Interesting Concept for Public Health: The Case of Older Persons
(Oxford University Press, 2014-07)
Traditional accounts of vulnerability tend to label entire populations as vulnerable. This approach is of limited utility. Instead, this article utilizes a layered approach to vulnerability, identifying multiple vulnerabilities ...
Revisiting vulnerability: its development and impact
(Springer, 2019)
The concept of vulnerability has been hotly debated in research ethics literature. Some critics considered it a useless concept. In 2009—against some of those criticisms—I defended the importance of understanding this ...
Rubens, Corsets and Taxonomies: A Response to Meek Lange, Rogers and Dodds
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2015-07)
In ‘Vulnerability in Research Ethics: A way forward, Margaret Meek Lange, Wendy Rogers and Susan Dodds (hereafter ‘the authors’) provide an interesting and valuable contribution to the conceptualization of vulnerability. ...
Drastic-based methodology for assessing groundwater vulnerability in the gümüşhacıköy and merzifon basin (amasya, turkey)
(UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA, 2013)
In recent years, preparation of aquifer vulnerability maps has become crucial in order to prevent adding new ones to those aquifers that have been contaminated due to environmental effects and been out of use. When preparing ...
Repensando políticas públicas desde la noción de capas de vulnerabilidad: el caso de las personas mayoresRethinking public policy from the notion of layers of vulnerability: the case of the elderly
(Elsevier, 2015-01)
En este artículo se dejan de lado los enfoques habituales de la vulnerabilidad y se hace un análisis descriptivo de la situación de vulnerabilidad en los ancianos. En la primera parte, se presenta muy brevemente la propuesta ...
A new method to evaluate the vulnerability of watersheds facing several stressors: A case study in mediterranean Chile
(2019)
Freshwater systems are subjected to multiple anthropogenic stressors and natural disturbances that act as debilitating agents and modifiers of river systems, causing cumulative and synergistic effects that deteriorate their ...
Vulnerability of radar protocol and proposed mitigation
(CRUC-IUA-UNDEF, 2018)
The radar system is extremely important. Each government must ensure the safety of passengers and the efficiency of the system. This is why it has to be considered by suitable and high-performance professionals. In this ...
Healthcare and social needs of international migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America: analysis of the Chilean case
(2022)
International migrants are a particularly vulnerable group in the context of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Immigrants in Chile tend to experience multidimensional poverty and layers of social vulnerability. ...