As Fleischer and McKeown (16: 10) discuss, such incorporation would be particularly useful for social epidemiologists because it would shed additional light on the ways in which 'upstream', global determinants differentially impact the health-states of vulnerable, disadvantaged populations.
UNICEF works for all children, everywhere, beginning with those who are most vulnerable, disadvantaged and excluded – fighting for the fair chance of all children to access their rights.
Differences in Internet access according to income, education, age and geographic location may reduce access to care for vulnerable or disadvantaged groups [ 35, 36].
Because of its peer-led approach and the simplified health information given, the program may also be relevant for vulnerable and disadvantaged populations with low health literacy.
This continuation of support via involvement in sequential programmes throughout early childhood is likely to lead to better developmental outcomes, particularly for vulnerable and disadvantaged children.
2. Enhance Access for Vulnerable and Disadvantaged Children, both Young Participants and Young Facilitators: Cchool directors and community leaders have an important role to play in identifying and recruiting the most vulnerable young children for the programme, including those children from families with low levels of maternal education.
Close-to-community providers such as HEWs are pivotal in contributing to universal access to health services and in the case of TB REACH project to increasing access to TB diagnosis and treatment services, particularly for vulnerable and disadvantaged populations in remote areas.
While the new programme will play a key role in the achievement of the basic services UNDAF pillar, it also will contribute to the other three pillars as well, emphasizing a protective environment for vulnerable and disadvantaged children and their families, and reducing, in particular, disparities among the rural and urban regions of the country as well as between the urban poor and non-poor.
3) As part of recovery planning, the focus on vulnerable, disadvantaged and less reached children or population groups needs to be made more explicit for each programme area.
Access to effective healthcare is in particular challenging for vulnerable and socially disadvantaged patients.
