HEALTH-STATUS OF VULNERABLE POPULATIONS
HEALTH-STATUS OF VULNERABLE POPULATIONS
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DOI：
10.1146/annurev.pu.15.050194.002415
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发表时间：
1994-01-01
影响因子：
20.8
通讯作者：
ADAY, LA
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作者：
ADAY, LA
弱势群体面临身体、心理和/或社会健康不良的风险。这一脆弱性定义的基础是流行病学的风险概念，即个人有可能在一定时间内生病。“脆弱”一词来源于拉丁语vulnus（伤口）。图一（1）概述了研究健康状况不佳脆弱性的根源和后果的框架。社区和相关的个人特征是预测身体、心理和/或社会健康状况不佳发生率的风险因素。风险因素包括与健康相关结果的发生概率相关或导致其发生概率增加的属性或暴露（例如吸烟、吸毒和含铅油漆中毒）。相对风险是指暴露于风险因素的群体与未暴露于风险因素的群体之间健康状况不佳的风险比率（22）。相对风险反映了不同群体对健康状况不佳的不同脆弱性。
Vulnerable populations are at risk of poor physical, psychological, and/or social health. Underlying this definition of vulnerability is the epidemiolog ical concept of risk, in that there is a probability that an individual could become ill within a given period of time. The word" vulnerable" is derived from the Latin root vulnus (wound). A framework for studying the origin and consequences of vulnerability to poor health is summarized in Figure I (1).Community and associated individual characteristics are risk factors pre dictive of the incidence of poor physical, psychological, and/or social health. Risk factors encompass those attributes or exposures (smoking, drug use, and lead paint poi oning, for example) that are related or lead to increases in the probability of occurrence of health-related outcomes. Relative risk refers to the ratio of the risk of poor health among groups exposed to the risk factors versus those who are not so exposed (22). Relative risk reflects the differential vulnerability of different groups to poor health.