States do make various efforts to aid this vulnerable population, with the help of $140 million in federal funds authorized under a 1999 law sponsored by then-Sen.
The supplies were sent to aid vulnerable children and women.
Billions of Medicaid dollars (a federal benefits programme aimed at the very poorest) for example, are siphoned off, Hatcher writes, "using illusory budget shell games to divert aid funds from vulnerable populations to state coffers and private profit".
A reliable and quantifiable metric for frailty enables the development of risk-prediction models and clinical scoring systems that will aid targeted interventions to vulnerable populations that will benefit most.
Further epidemiologic studies that incorporate archived climatological and environmental data in modeling specific health outcomes in vulnerable populations would aid adaptation to climate-change-related health effects through preparedness strategies implemented at various scales (37).
In 2008, the U.S. Southern Command launched Operation Continuing Promise as an ongoing mission to provide humanitarian aid and assistance to vulnerable populations in the Caribbean and Latin America.
With an indeterminate life-span they continue to pose a significant threat to the civilian population, as well as restrict the movement of people, aid and goods to vulnerable populations.
Consequently, it is absolutely essential for the European Commission, the Council, every Member State and the whole of the international community to exert maximum pressure on the Zimbabwean authorities to allow completely free access by international humanitarian aid to the most vulnerable populations.
Another way in which militants manipulate aid is through controlling access to vulnerable populations and redirecting the distribution of aid.
In the case of a humanitarian, this may mean temporarily suspending operations, if parties are diverting aid, and denying access to vulnerable populations.
Because not all populations are at equal health risk from heat, knowing where vulnerable populations are located can aid cities in targeting their resources most effectively and, at the state and regional scale, can facilitate coordination of heat emergency plans.
