In 2010, the CDC expanded its guidance encouraging the vaccination of vulnerable population groups.
Baroness Ashton told MEPs that Europe's primary aim was to deliver quick relief to the "most affected and vulnerable population".
The draft report also recognized the need to better coordinate medical and long-term care for dementia patients, as well as improving care transitions for this very vulnerable population.
When treating a particularly vulnerable population, informed consent becomes more important, and if data are being collected, there are fairly stringent obligations on the part of the researcher.
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In human terms, this translates into a situation where about half the country's most vulnerable population, those who are dependent on the regime's public food distribution system for sustenance, are severely food insecure.
The same report warned that increasing numbers of returning military veterans as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down provided those on the far right with a vulnerable population to target for radicalization.
"I think this is evidence of a broken system where the most vulnerable population of kids are not receiving their constitutionally guaranteed rights, " Jody Owens II, managing attorney for the center's Mississippi office, told CNN.
As for what impact all this could have on Somalia's famine - I will write about that in more detail in another blog, but the UN has already expressed concern and, with planting season at hand, it is hard to imagine how an upsurge in fighting could be anything but bad news for Somalia's vulnerable population.
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The treatments leave the entire population vulnerable to drug-resistant bugs.
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Immunity to dengue is low in Singapore's population because of the intensive dengue-carrier controls, "making the population vulnerable to outbreaks, " said Ng Lee Ching, director of the Environmental Health Institute at Singapore's National Environment Agency.
Pregnant women, health care workers, and parents or guardians of infants under 6 months of age are among the most vulnerable segments of the population, Sebelius said.
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Pregnant women, health care workers and parents or guardians of infants under 6 months of age are among the most vulnerable segments of the population, Sebelius has said.
Without overall Israeli security control over Judea and Samaria, Israel's population centers are vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
States could shift 30 percent of their welfare block grant to programs to protect and care for children, the most vulnerable part of the welfare population.
"Somerset has an ageing population and safeguarding vulnerable people is a priority for the council, " said Councillor Christine Lawrence, Cabinet Member with responsibility for Health and Adult Social Care.
He added that AQA had reneged on guidance to schools about the standard needed to achieve a C grade and said that this had hit the most vulnerable part of the student population hardest.
Among the first casualties of the war with Iraq should be one of the most cherished illusions of recent American defense strategy the notion that the only certain means of preventing genocidal attacks against the American people is to ensure that the U.S. population remains utterly vulnerable to them.
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However, if control policies are later abandoned, the disease comes storming back to a population which has become even more vulnerable.
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She added that its aim was to spread the pain, and "seek to distribute the burden of the adjustment fairly among the various segments of the population and to protect the most vulnerable groups".
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What's more, the parts of the world where populations are growing fastest are also those most vulnerable to climate change, and a rising population will exacerbate the consequences of global warming water shortages, mass migration, declining food yields.
The Zambian barbet (aka Caplin's barbet) is the country's only endemic bird and, due to its small population and disappearing habitat, has been listed as a vulnerable species (likely to become endangered).
As we know, though crowded areas of Asia are especially vulnerable to such outbreaks (or viral ones), the wider global population has no basis for complacency.
Although the researchers took into account a wide range of extenuating factors, including diet and exercise regimens, smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass index, and marital status, it's possible that people who drink coffee differ from the rest of the population in as-yet unidentified ways that make them less vulnerable to disease and early death.
Immigration and population growth have obscured the progress of some Pakistanis and Bangladeshis and made them vulnerable to accusations that they do not wish to live among whites.
It will also encourage the population to remain in place, and may even attract others to the area, leaving them all vulnerable to the next natural disaster, which is as likely to be a severe drought as further flooding.
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