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In such cases, a balance should be established between protecting subjects from exploitation and depriving these subjects of access to the potential benefits of research. Reasons justifying the participation of these subjects would include that some studies could not be carried out without a vulnerable population.
Vulnerability refers to "the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally." [1] The understanding of social and environmental vulnerability, as a methodological approach, involves the analysis of the risks and assets of disadvantaged groups, such as the elderly.
Most work conducted so far focuses on empirical observation and conceptual models. Thus, current social vulnerability research is a middle range theory and represents an attempt to understand the social conditions that transform a natural hazard (e.g. flood, earthquake, mass movements etc.) into a social disaster. The concept emphasizes two ...
In 2006, there was research focused on possible connections between exclusion and brain function. [40] Studies published by both the University of Georgia and San Diego State University found that exclusion can lead to diminished brain functioning and poor decision making. [40] Such studies corroborate with earlier beliefs of sociologists.
These health conditions of poverty most burden vulnerable groups such as women, children, ethnic minorities, and disabled people. [2] Social determinants of health – like child development, education, living and working conditions, and healthcare [1] - are of special importance to the impoverished.
Ethics dumping is a concept in research ethics that describes the export of unethical research practices from higher-income to lower-income settings. [1] Ethics dumping can occur intentionally when researchers knowingly side-step restrictive regulatory regimes to undertake research abroad that would be prohibited in their home setting.
Active policies are a way of reversing the negative effects of industrial restructuring in transition economies and to help integrate vulnerable people furthest from the labor markets. [9] They are often targeted at the long-term unemployed, workers in poor families, and particular groups with labor market disadvantages.
In neurology, there is an established literature [5] about the innate propensity of the human brain to divide the world into us and them valence categories, where the exact membership of the in-group and out-group are socially contingent (hence vulnerable to the instruments of propaganda), and the intensity exists along a spectrum from mild to ...