"I was vulnerable in terms of realising how short life can be," he said.
Other groups that were found to be vulnerable in terms of food insecurity include households headed by a single, widow or divorced mother, households with disabled family members, households with strong indigenous background, rural households, low income families, non-agricultural households and households with children.
Certain demographic groups are well known to be vulnerable in terms of health inequalities [ 41– 41].
Overall, the socio-economic status of the two populations were similar, both were vulnerable in terms of education, levels of poverty and unemployment.
This group is vulnerable in terms of health and economic, living, and working conditions, with poor or non-existent bargaining possibilities.
People can be vulnerable in terms of their tendency to be stress reactive, but also protected from this vulnerability trait in the face of strong tendencies to experience positive emotions in daily life (i.e. from pleasant events or sense of meaning) which buffer stress, prevent future psychopathology and increase mental health.
Thus cost burden falls most heavily on those with multiple chronic conditions [ 42] and those least able to bear it [ 43] – a group who are vulnerable both in terms of health and income.
Relative to organized migrants, spontaneous or voluntary migrants are likely to be more vulnerable in terms of social protection because they are recognized but neither encouraged or supported, nor are they authorized.
"There are smaller children that are not going to school – the schools have been damaged – so here these children are very vulnerable in terms of violence, in terms of harassment," she noted.
While in the former, patients are more vulnerable in terms of dependence of health providers, in the latter, participants are more vulnerable given the potential of unforeseen results.
