Interrelationship Between Vulnerability and Social and Health Problems

INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
“VULNERABILITY” AND “SOCIAL
AND HEALTH PROBLEMS”

Purpose of This
Presentation
 To Understand the concept of “Vulnerability” in terms ‘Social
and Health Care’ problem.
 To identify and analyze the vulnerability that contribute in
social and health problems generation.
 To Identify the interrelationship between identified
vulnerabilities and Social-Health problem.

Introduction
 In the Context of Health and social Care vulnerability can be defined as
the menace of poor health in terms of physical mental as well as social
perspective.
 According to World Health Organization (WHO) population those are
highly exposed to above mentioned menaces are identifies as ‘Vulnerable
Population’ (World Health Organization, 2014).
 The probability of poor health is not only the outcomes of biological
disorder but also get facilitated various kind of social factors and
situations that determine the extent of Vulnerability among population.
 Key determinants of Social and Health Care vulnerability are,
 Homelessness
 Poverty
 Mental illness
 Rural and migrant health
 Infectious diseases
 Addiction
 violence
Social and Health
determinants of
Vulnerable
Population

Analysis of Identified
Vulnerabilities
How Poverty makes population more vulnerable?
 According to Federal Government family income status, number of family members, number of minor
aged family members (Lower than 18) are the key determinates of poverty level.
 Due to due poverty individual face lack of consciousness care, and support in terms of both physical
and mental health.
 Poverty forces n individual to choose only one option between food and physical well being.
 Food being the most basic needs of living the live health get neglected making the individual
more vulnerable.
 poverty also make individual reluctance to the preventive
health care measures as those needs time and money. Spending
those precious time in earning seems to be more reasonable
from the perspective of poor population as that will relief both of
their appetite and monetary problem (Nolen and Rector, 2015).
 Lack Of awareness and precautionary measures
spread up Airborne diseases like
Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS etc, increase the rate of Chronic
Illness, infant mortality, lower rate of life expectancy etc.
 Economic burden also forces such population to
sacrifice with educational
Leading them towards the Persistent poverty.
Type of Poverty
Persistent poverty
(Under such kind of poverty
families remain poor from
generation to generation.
Main cause is social and
economical inequality. )
Neighborhood poverty
(Caused due to geographical
determinant or inequality
such as lack of business or
employment resources due
to adverse climate. )