Vulnerable Population Essay

environment and lower costs, remains a lack of entertainment, study and job options. It suffers from a technological backlog and with the passage of time; having out there urban, cosmopolitan and bigger places as cities, it will be no longer ahead of its population…

With over 7.6 million km² for a population of only about 22.7 million people (the lowest population density worldwide), the island continent Australia is quite a unique country (Australian Government, n.d.). Even though it counts as an industrial and well developed western country, it encounters many challenges in providing health care for 2.3% of the population due to it´s geography. These little over 500.000 people have settled in Australia’s rural areas, hundreds of kilometers away from the…

1. The shift in demographics will have a drastic impact on health status, health services, and health expenditures. With constant advancement in research in technology regarding health and diseases, the population of old age people is increasing significantly. A way to measure health status is performing activities of daily living (ADL). In the National Center for Health Statistics' National Health Interview Survey, it was reported that in 1980, 3.1 non-institutionalized million people needed…

world, some managers and supervisors do not want to hire older workers and others do not want to hire younger workers, complex, expensive, dysfunctional recruitment and selection could result. The shortage of younger workers and the aging of the population make employment fairness toward both groups of workers critical to employers’ ability to attract and retain an adequate supply of workers in the future. Moreover, the importance of fairness to young workers, their future careers, and future…

continent in the world, with an area of 17,212,000 square miles (“Asia Facts - Top 20 Facts about Asia | Facts.net.”). Asia also has the largest population of all the continents combined with a population of over 4.4 billion as of 2014 (“Google.”) . With this population over two-thirds of the worlds population lives in Asia. Megacities are cities with a population of over 10 million. Asia has seven of the largest megacities in the world (Kotkin, Joel, and Wendell Cox). The question called into…

Detroit area. When members began to move away from the city, the church began to assist the current residents in the neighborhood. Cass Community Church has been led by various reverends who served and implemented various programs that assists vulnerable populations. At this time, Cass Community Social…

public transport in Mumbai, suburban railway and BEST bus share the majority proportion at around 88% of the public transport (2008). As traditionally considered, public transport service is the responsibility of the government, but due to the large population and limitation of resources in Mumbai, government-provided public transport service is rather inadequate and fail to meet the public demand. During the recent decades, private transport has increased significantly. The inadequate of public…

Many marginalised migrants end up working in the unofficial and informal sector. According to the estimate of the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (2009), between 94% and the 98% of the poor and vulnerable work in the informal sector. The Commission identifies migrants as being at the bottom of the working class, the most disadvantaged. Informal labourers do not benefit from laws directed at improving pay and conditions of work, when they still they…

Brazil, being the fifth-largest country in the world, has a population of approximately 200 million people which has increasingly become urbanised since the 1950s, with 85% of the current population living in urban areas. However, like many other countries, in the course of this urban development and economic growth, may have neglected measures of sustainability for the present and future. The current national focus and priority of the country is on economic stabilization policies even though…

1 Introduction Population ageing and urbanization are two global trends that together comprise major forces shaping the 21st century and at the same time as cities are growing, their share of residents aged 60 years and more is increasing. Older people are a resource for their families, communities and economies in supportive and enabling living environments. (WHO, 2015) The world is rapidly ageing: the number of people aged 60 and over as a proportion of the global population will double from…