Low-income Children
Defined
According to a Health Affairs article, vulnerability can be best defined as being prone to harm, being of result from an interaction between the resources available to individuals and communities, and challenges in life that are faced. A vulnerable population can then be ambiguously indicated as “the disadvantaged sub-segment of the community requiring utmost care, specific ancillary considerations and augmented protections in research” (Shivayogi, 2013). Vulnerable populations can encompass individuals who are ethnic or racial minorities, elderly, socioeconomically disadvantaged, children, underinsured or those with certain medical conditions. Many affiliated within vulnerable populations many of times have conditions with their health that are aggravated by unnecessarily inadequate healthcare (Vulnerable populations in healthcare, 2013). Studies performed in 2013 examined closely the effects of being apart of a vulnerable population. These recent studies unveiled that a greater societal income inequality impacts, those at the lower of the income curve. This greater societal income equality impacts in a way of an increasing number in mortality and heightening the importance of individual personal situations.
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One of the most well-known policy analysis frameworks is a six-step framework developed by Bruce Jansson. The questions can be summarized in this six-steps as, “1) What is the social problem or issue under consideration; 2) What strategies can be identified to address it; 3) What are the costs and benefits of each of these options? 4) What specific policy proposal would support the most advantageous of these options; 5) How can support for this proposal be generated; 6) what information do advocated need to communicate to support the proposal” (Barusch, 2006,
Defined
According to a Health Affairs article, vulnerability can be best defined as being prone to harm, being of result from an interaction between the resources available to individuals and communities, and challenges in life that are faced. A vulnerable population can then be ambiguously indicated as “the disadvantaged sub-segment of the community requiring utmost care, specific ancillary considerations and augmented protections in research” (Shivayogi, 2013). Vulnerable populations can encompass individuals who are ethnic or racial minorities, elderly, socioeconomically disadvantaged, children, underinsured or those with certain medical conditions. Many affiliated within vulnerable populations many of times have conditions with their health that are aggravated by unnecessarily inadequate healthcare (Vulnerable populations in healthcare, 2013). Studies performed in 2013 examined closely the effects of being apart of a vulnerable population. These recent studies unveiled that a greater societal income inequality impacts, those at the lower of the income curve. This greater societal income equality impacts in a way of an increasing number in mortality and heightening the importance of individual personal situations.
Prevalence
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One of the most well-known policy analysis frameworks is a six-step framework developed by Bruce Jansson. The questions can be summarized in this six-steps as, “1) What is the social problem or issue under consideration; 2) What strategies can be identified to address it; 3) What are the costs and benefits of each of these options? 4) What specific policy proposal would support the most advantageous of these options; 5) How can support for this proposal be generated; 6) what information do advocated need to communicate to support the proposal” (Barusch, 2006,