Indigenous people, elderly, women and children are considered particularly vulnerable groups in Arctic communities (4, 34).
Getting to zero means tackling the deep chronic poverty of disabled, elderly, indigenous, low caste and other marginalised groups, often in remote areas.
This section specifically highlights the need for the engagement of women, children and youth, persons with disabilities, the elderly, indigenous peoples, and migrants among other civil society actors.
The eleven elderly indigenous women of Maya Q'eqchi' origin sat silently with their shawls covering their heads as their stories of sexual torture at the hands of the military from the height of the country's civil war were retold in a Guatemala City courtroom.
In contrast, AF was more prevalent in elderly non-Indigenous Australians compared to Indigenous Australians.
Access to fast broadband combined with a uniform wholesale price, and access for the elderly and indigenous communities will put distant towns on an equal footing with people in major cities.In Australia's 2010 election, I made broadband-enabled health services the centre-piece of my campaign launch.
The three beneficiary/issues least identified were Urban areas, elderly and Indigenous peoples/traditional medicine.
This allowed the establishment of research lines on the social response to the health needs of vulnerable populations, such as migrants, indigenous peoples and the elderly.
Furthermore, we did not consider microbial test results, because it is difficult to differentiate between infective sources and indigenous bacteria, particularly in elderly subjects, and the sensitivity and specificity of microbial findings are low.
This includes identification of under-utilised varieties (often now known only by elderly members of indigenous communities) as well as varieties that have higher micronutrient values and that, with change in climate, have the potential to be grown at higher altitudes.
