The goals of the Hohonu Moana mission include identifying and characterizing vulnerable marine habitats and collecting information on the complex geological history of the Central Pacific seamounts. .
The goals of the Hohonu Moana mission include identifying and characterizing vulnerable marine habitats and collecting information on the complex geological history of the Central Pacific seamounts.
Thus, more extensive biomonitoring at the population level is required to determine reference levels and to characterize vulnerable populations such as children.
Our aim was to characterize vulnerable groups for excess mortality among people with SMI, substance use disorders, depressive episode, and recurrent depressive disorder.
Until now, most studies have focused on quantifying temperature health relationships, characterizing vulnerable subgroups, identifying effect modifiers (e.g., air pollution, socioeconomic status), and projecting future health impacts under climate change scenarios (Basu 2009; Hajat and Kosatsky 2010; Huang et al. 2011a; O'Neill and Ebi 2009; Vandentorren et al. 2006).
Isolated communities on small islands are often characterized as vulnerable and marginalized.
Currently 88%% of the region's population lives in urban areas characterized by vulnerable building types.
People living in rural areas can be characterized as vulnerable populations, predisposed to poor health outcomes because of lack of sanitation (potable water, sewage and garbage disposal) and limited access to preventive health care [ 6].
In this study, we showed that areas which are chronically polluted by air pollution can be characterized as vulnerable to heat in the sense that they have more deaths attributable to heat than less exposed areas.
DERFEM is employed to assign each vulnerability a scaled value within [0, 1] which quantitatively characterizes the vulnerable level.
A self-report measure of CR [the Leiden Index of Depression Sensitivity-Revised (LEIDS-R)] contains several subscales that cover several dimensions of maladaptive cognitions that characterize the vulnerable depressive mind (see Methods).
