Academic Articles & Research Papers

Vulnerability-related disparities in early childhood healthcare costs in the Northern Territory, Australia: a population-based retrospective cohort study.

HIV vulnerability among adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of individual social and structural determinants.

Frailty across Hip arthroplasty pathways: vulnerability domains, outcomes, and implications for care-a narrative review.

Reframing Obesity as Collective Vulnerability in Black Churches in The USA: Implications for Clergy Leadership, Health Equity, and Pastoral Identity.

Intersections of climate and society: cold stress vulnerability in Northern Norway.

Global vulnerability assessment of mobile telecommunications infrastructure to climate hazards using crowdsourced open data.

Self-reported prevalence of tuberculosis and selected associated vulnerability factors among rural populations in six districts of India: A community-based cross-sectional study.

Vulnerability index impacts distribution of prostate cancer clinical trials in the United States.

Unequal access to restorative coastal blue-green places: social vulnerability and place-based well-being opportunities in a coastal metropolis.

Social vulnerability of children and adolescents who are victims of sexual violence assisted in a specialized service: descriptive study, Porto Alegre and metropolitan region, 2018.

Latent vulnerability profiles behind mortality inequalities in Czechia.

Back trajectory modelled PM10 plumes: population vulnerability profile from an uncontrolled fire.

Developing an Early Childhood Environmental Health Vulnerability Index to Assess Cumulative Health Impacts Across Contiguous US.

Periodontal inflammation may amplify genitourinary vulnerability in perimenopause and postmenopause.

Modernism, Postmodernism, and Communication Studies: A Rereading of an Ongoing Debate

Recent writings in communication studies have tended to represent the relationship between modernist and postmodernist thought as bifurcated and oppositional in character. Such representations, I argue, result from inadequate characterizati...

Investigating Spatial Effects through Machine Learning and Leveraging Explainable AI for Child Malnutrition in Pakistan

While socioeconomic gradients in regional health inequalities are firmly established, the synergistic interactions between socioeconomic deprivation and climate vulnerability within convenient proximity and neighbourhood locations with heal...

Charlson comorbidity index has no incremental value for mortality risk prediction in nursing home residents with COVID-19 disease

Abstract Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing home (NH) residents faced the highest risk of severe COVID-19 disease and mortality. Due to their frailty status, comorbidity burden can serve as a useful predictive indicator of vul...

Correlation between frailty and reduction in cortical thickness in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Abstract Physical inactivity and cognitive impairment in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can lead to frailty and poor prognoses. However, little is known regarding the association between frailty and the human bra...

Criminal Victimization and Legal Challenges of Migrants in Developed Countries: A Critical Analysis

This article examines migrant victimization as a structural outcome of migration governance systems in developed countries. This study demonstrates that variations in enforcement intensity, labor-market segmentation, and procedural safeguar...

Seismic Risk Assessment of Ancient Timber Structures Based on Improved Matter-element Extension Model

In order to accurately predict the risk level of ancient timber structures under earthquake,22 evaluation indexes were selected, including hazard of disaster-causing factors, susceptibility assessment of disaster environment, and vulnerabil...