Vulnerable Populations - Psychology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Dentists' experience with low-income patients benefiting from a public insurance program.

30 Jul 2009 France has a system of public coverage that guarantees low-income earners full payment of basic dental health costs. In spite of this coverage and major needs for care, deprived populations have lower access to dental care. The aim of this ... Read more...

Gang youth as a vulnerable population for nursing intervention.

29 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: Gang youth often come from socially and economically marginalized communities. Such youth report significantly higher rates of participation in violence, substance use, and risky sexual behaviors than their nongang peers. AIMS: This ... Read more...

Ethics in contemporary community psychiatry.

30 May 2009 Community psychiatry is a wonderful and rewarding career path that increasing numbers of psychiatrists are choosing to practice.14 This article was created to provide an orientation to the characteristics of contemporary community psychiatric ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Vulnerable Populations - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Dentists' experience with low-income patients benefiting from a public insurance program. 30 Jul 2009
• Gang youth as a vulnerable population for nursing intervention. 29 Jun 2009
• Ethics in contemporary community psychiatry. 30 May 2009
• Unrecognized vulnerabilities. 29 Apr 2009
• Still shackled in the land of liberty: denying children the right to be safe from abusive "treatment". 30 Mar 2009
• Mapping chronic illness in the age of globalization: reclaiming the good for the chronically ill. 30 Mar 2009
• Gender and vulnerable populations in benefit sharing: an exploration of conceptual and contextual points. 30 Mar 2009
• Undue fear of inducements in research in developing countries. 30 Mar 2009
• Guest editorial: vulnerability revisited. 30 Mar 2009
• [Stressing events in socially vulnerable children and adolescents in Porto Alegre] 27 Feb 2009
• The ethics of conducting research with mental health service users. 27 Feb 2009
• Assessing and quantifying high risk: comparing risky behaviors by youth in an urban, disadvantaged community with nationally representative youth. 27 Feb 2009
• 'I don't trust you, you are going to tell', adolescents with emotional and behavioural disorders participating in qualitative research. 21 Feb 2009
• Poverty and adolescent mental health. 30 Jan 2009
• [Social vulnerability is more frequent in victims of interpersonal violence: value of the EPICES score] 27 Jan 2009
• [The left-behind syndrome] 30 Dec 2008
• Indicators of preclinical disability: women's experiences of an aging body. 30 Dec 2008
• Divorce is a part of my life... resilience, survival, and vulnerability: young adults' perception of the implications of parental divorce. 30 Dec 2008
• Food intake patterns of homeless youth in Toronto. 30 Dec 2008
• Fast food and deprivation in Nova Scotia. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Vulnerable Populations'

Definition: Groups of persons whose range of options is severely limited, who are frequently subjected to COERCION in their DECISION MAKING, or who may be compromised in their ability to give INFORMED CONSENT.

Descriptor UI: D035862

Alternative terms: Vulnerable Populations; Population, Vulnerable; Populations, Vulnerable; Vulnerable Population; Sensitive Populations; Population, Sensitive; Populations, Sensitive; Sensitive Population; Sensitive Population Groups; Group, Sensitive Population; Groups, Sensitive Population; Population Group, Sensitive; Population Groups, Sensitive; Sensitive Population Group; Disadvantaged;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; ethnology; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: M01.965;

History Note: 2003

Technical Notes: HUMAN only