Sentence examples for most vulnerable segments from inspiring English sources

In simplified terms, Vision 2030 focuses on three major areas, together with efforts to protect the most vulnerable segments of the population.

One of the central purposes of universal vaccination is to provide "herd immunity" to the most vulnerable segments of the population infants, for example, and those receiving drug treatment for cancer and other diseases that compromise the immune system.

The results demonstrate that out-of-pocket health spending is pushing large segments of the population into impoverishment and that the poorest and most vulnerable segments of the population are most at risk of financial catastrophe.

Today's planners are committed to taking action – helping to implement improvements in the quality of life, particularly for the most vulnerable segments of society, often through public-private partnerships of various kinds.

It is now widely recognized that climate change is likely to have detrimental impacts across the Caribbean region, with the burden likely to fall disproportionately on the most vulnerable segments of society.

Although the concept of social equity seems to be ubiquitous in most mobility plans of major Latin American cities, when evaluating transport projects for financing and prioritisation there are no specific or solid indicators to measure how they can contribute to promoting better access to opportunities, particularly for the most vulnerable segments of the population.

These workers constitute the most vulnerable segment of the workforce.

In India, over 800 million people live without access to traditional health infrastructure, with the most vulnerable segment of the population being women and children.

A fourth reason is that in many developing nations the application of seismic resistant construction is inadvertently restricted to wealthy, or civil segments of the community, and is either unobtainable or irrelevant to the most vulnerable segment of the public — the owner/occupiers of substandard dwellings.

The Palestine Liberation Organisation PLOO) accused the US of "targeting the most vulnerable segment of the Palestinian people".

Indeed, geologists had identified Nepal's most vulnerable segment of fault just weeks before the recent deadly quake struck.