Title: Vulnerable Populations in the Context of Public Health Emergency Preparedness Planning and Response
Abstract: Abstract This chapter describes several kinds of vulnerability to harm that arise in the context of emergency preparedness planning and response policy. First, it should be recognized that there are multiple forms of vulnerability to greater than average harms, both medical and socioeconomic, natural and socially situated, and that harms of one kind among some of the most vulnerable populations can magnify and compound harms of other kinds produced by disasters. Second, policy-makers have a duty to identify and anticipate the groups most vulnerable to the greatest magnitude of harm in a disaster—such as those with cognitive disability—and take steps to provide for equal protection, mitigate harm in advance of a disaster, and ameliorate predictable harms to vulnerable populations after a disaster.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-03-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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