Vulnerable Populations

Question 1

What is susceptibility to actual or potential stressors that may lead to an adverse effect?

Answer 1

Vulnerability

Question 2

What is groups with increased risk for developing adverse health outcomes?

Answer 2

Vulnerable populations

Question 3

Do people with higher or lower incomes and education tend to be at a higher risk for health problems?

Answer 3

Lower incomes and education

Question 4

A goal in the United States is to eliminate health disparities by expanding access to what for vulnerable or at risk populations?

Answer 4

Healthcare

Question 5

Vulnerable populations are more sensitive to risk factors because they are exposed to what risk factors?

Answer 5

Cumulative risk factors

Question 6

Vulnerable populations are more likely to suffer from health what?

Answer 6

Health disparities

Question 7

Vulnerability results from the combined effects of limited physical, environmental, and what resources?

Answer 7

Personal resources

Question 8

Social and economic factors predispose people to what?

Answer 8

Vulnerability

Question 9

What is a growing problem in the United States that also is a primary cause of vulnerability?

Answer 9

Poverty

Question 10

Is age related or not related to vulnerability?

Answer 10

It is as people on both ends of the age continuum are often less able physiologically to adapt to stressors.

Question 11

There is often a cycle of vulnerability, where a new problem emerges quickly after one is solved, leading to feelings of what?

Answer 11

Hopelessness

Question 12

What tends toward providing more comprehensive, family-centered services when treating vulnerable population groups, such as family-cenetered “one-stop” services or wrap-around services?

Answer 12

Nursing interventions

Question 13

What helps to provide in locations where people live and work?

Answer 13

Comprehensive services

Question 14

Advocacy, social justice, and culturally and linguistically appropriate what?

Answer 14

Health care

Question 15

Planning and implementing care for vulnerable populations includes:
1. Create a blank environment
2. Do not make blank
3. Advocate for blank health care services
4. Know what blank are available
5. Show respect, compassion, and blank
6. Coordinate services and blank
7. Focus on blank
8. Develop your own blank network
9. Know when to “walk beside” the client and when to blank the client to “walk ahead”

Answer 15

1. Trusting
2. Assumptions
3. Accessible
4. Resources
5. Concern
6. Providers
7. Prevention
8. Support
9. Encourage

Question 16

What five groups have an increased susceptibility when talking about vulnerable populations in research?

Answer 16

Children, prisoners, pregnant women, mentally disabled persons, and economically or educationally disadvantaged persons