Sentence examples for vulnerable to barriers from inspiring English sources

The impact of the neighbourhood environment on health and behaviour amongst older adults has received less attention, despite this age group being potentially more vulnerable to barriers in their surrounding social and physical environment.

Within this field, the impact of the neighbourhood environment on health behaviours and outcomes of older adults has received relatively little attention, despite potentially being more vulnerable to barriers in their surrounding social and physical environment (Clarke and Nieuwenhuijsen, 2009).

Clustering of risk factors, or their cumulative effects throughout the life course, make underprivileged populations more vulnerable to facing barriers to accessing fortification of maize flour and corn meal.

Bat populations are potentially vulnerable to the barrier effects of roads.

Children with disabilities that affect communication may be particularly vulnerable to abuse, since communication barriers can hamper their ability to disclose abusive experiences.

Low response rates when exploring the local context, therefore, make an implementation study vulnerable to overlooking some important barriers and of only capturing the perceptions of those health professionals' who are especially interested in the clinical topic.

These proteins are integral to the integrity and barrier function of the intestinal epithelium and such caspase-3 cleavage makes the intestinal barrier vulnerable to potential bacterial paracellular translocation.

Our analysis also omits the cost of the cardiovascular impacts of mercury exposure (Grandjean et al. 2004) or the costs of mercury exposure to children in the first 2 years of postnatal life, when myelination is still continuing and the blood brain barrier remains vulnerable to penetration by methyl mercury (Rodier 1995).

The poor are more vulnerable to TB, furthermore they experience multiple barriers in accessing diagnostic services.

"The Great Barrier Reef is particularly vulnerable to climate change so we need to be doing everything we can to reduce that pressure on it.

When combined with other new data, they say, that information will help predict which barrier islands are particularly vulnerable to breaching in coastal storms.