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vulenerable population
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a group/s who are morelikely to develop health related problems, have more difficulty accessing healthcare, more likely to experience a poor outcome/shorter life span
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Healthy People 2010 vulnerable population
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poor, homeless, disabled, severly mentally ill, the very young and the very old
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poverty
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drastically increases vulnerabilty
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poverty illness
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anemia, asthma, diabetes, hearing impairments, flu, pneumonia, tuberculosis and certian eyeball abnormalities
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2 important indirect measures of the influence of income on health
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1)comparison of martality rates for white and minority populations 2) examination of the total mortality rates from illness that affect the poor to a greater degree than other income groups.
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psychologically decompensated
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emotionally and mentally separated from society
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Socially Decompensated
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unable to interact with other people
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