Besides, urbanization causes vulnerability to natural hazards (Wenzel et al. 2007; Weng 2001), substantial reduction of cultivable lands (Lopez et al. 2001), habitat damage (Alphan 2003), species loss (McKinney 2006), the reduction of net primary productivity (Xian et al. 2007), and landscape change (Grimm et al. 2008; Herold et al. 2002).
It causes vulnerability to adverse health outcomes, such as functional impairment, falls, fractures, social isolation, hospitalization, etc.
Societal assets and human populations are spread unequally across landscapes causing vulnerability and resilience to vary spatially.
For those charities that are heavily dependant on the state, where cuts in public expenditure do cause vulnerability, we set aside £100m of taxpayers' money to help those charities that feel particularly vulnerable.
Albinism is a rare, noncontagious, genetically inherited condition that leads to a lack of pigmentation in the hair, skin and eyes, causing vulnerability to the sun and bright light, according to the United Nations.
Understanding the biological basis of these changes across the day and night may provide an insight into the underlying cause of the disease and could lead to better therapy (e.g. appropriately timed medication to target specific phases of the body clock or to coincide with specific behaviors that cause vulnerability, such as exercise).
The assessment was intended to assist advocates to better understand the factors causing vulnerability of female farmworkers in Mexico to abuse, harassment and discrimination.
Despite a demonstrated appearance of blunted affect, recent findings indicate that many individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia are emotionally responsive, particularly to stressful or negative stimuli, and that such sensitivity may cause vulnerability to symptoms or to the disorder.
PCT targets underlying cognitive vulnerability factors, such as dysfunctional cognitions that are easily reactivated in recovered patients and therefore may cause vulnerability for recurrence.
In addition, vulnerabilities faced by FSWs are very contextual, and thus the involvement of sex workers in defining the structural drivers or factors causing vulnerability is crucial.
Frailty is a state of decreased reserve resistance to stressors as a result of cumulative decline across multiple physiological systems, which cause vulnerability to different outcomes [ 19].
