vulnerable population
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvulnerableandpopulation
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vulnerable
adjective
uk/ˈvʌl.nər.ə.bəl/us/ˈvʌl.nɚ.ə.bəl/
able to be easily physically or mentally hurt, influenced, ...
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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(Definition ofvulnerableandpopulationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The crucial link between a hazard - or external threat - and a disaster was found in the notion of avulnerablepopulation.
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The problem with this double moral standard is how it impacts thevulnerablepopulation, especially poor women and teenagers.
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Detailed research is needed to identify the characteristics and health needs of thisvulnerablepopulation.
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Also, they might be hesitant to expose a wide,vulnerablepopulationto possible risks.
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This illustrates the importance of food hygiene in particular when dealing with avulnerablepopulation.
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Researchers and scholars set forth disparate views related to conducting research with persons at the end of life on the basis that dying persons constitute avulnerablepopulation.
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In this country, primary care trusts have the opportunity to take a more strategic, proactive approach and work with public, private and voluntary providers of care for thisvulnerablepopulation.
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Nursing home patients often represent avulnerablepopulationfor human subjects research.
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This, then, is a highlyvulnerablepopulation.
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Those most at risk are of course the mostvulnerablepopulationgroups, babies, children, women, the old and the sick.
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The high price of oil is making us all suffer, but the mostvulnerablepopulationgroups on low incomes are certainly being badly hit.
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That is all the more reason to keep this veryvulnerablepopulationgroup within our sights, specifically with the use of this resolution.
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These tend to be orthogeriatricians or rehabilitation physicians who focus on the care of the more elderly, anaestheticallyvulnerablepopulationafter their operations.
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He does not omit to highlight the difficulty which this monetary revolution could represent forvulnerablepopulationgroups such as older or disabled people.
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Areas that have attracted less attention in the past include home, leisure and sports accidents, as well as accidents invulnerablepopulationgroups, such as children, adolescents and elderly people.
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It is highly exposed to climate impacts, and is home to highlyvulnerablepopulationgroups, who are disproportionately poor and marginalized.
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Late in 1868, epidemics of cholera broke out among thevulnerablepopulation, and there was no harvest in the spring of 1869.
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This would enable our mostvulnerablepopulationto afford our most affordable housing.
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Vulnerablepopulationsuch as infants, pregnant women, the elderly and certain occupational workers bear a higher risk to diseases from exposure to toxic chemicals.
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