Vulnerable Populations

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Across
  1. 4. the condition of lacking basic human needs such as nutrition, clean water, healthcare, clothing, and shelter because of the inability to afford them
  2. 5. the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or country
  3. 6. set the official poverty levels
  4. 7. the variation in rates of disease occurrence and disability between socioeconomic and/or geographically defined population groups
  5. 8. contribute to vulnerability through things like income, health insurance, and healthcare access
  6. 11. sparsely populated rural places that are isolated from populated centers and services
  7. 13. those groups with increased risk for adverse health outcomes
  8. 14. the susceptibility of social groups to the impacts of hazards, as well as their ability to adequately recover from them
  9. 15. communities with fewer than 10,000 residents
Down
  1. 1. the ability of the built environment to withstand impacts
  2. 2. differences between groups in health coverage, access to care, and quality of care
  3. 3. anything in the environment that makes someone more susceptible to hardships
  4. 9. systematic, avoidable, and unjust disparities in health status and mortality rates across population groups that are rooted in underlying injustices and social and economic conditions
  5. 10. conditions determined by physical, social, economic, and environmental factors or processes which increase the susceptibility of an individual, a community, assets or systems to the impacts of hazards
  6. 12. an epidemiological term that means some people have a higher probability to health issues than others