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Descriptor English: Social Vulnerability
Descriptor Spanish: Vulnerabilidad Social
Descriptor vulnerabilidad social
Scope note: Características de una persona o comunidad que afectan a su capacidad para prever, afrontar, reparar y recuperarse de los efectos de un desastre natural o causado por el ser humano. (Traducción libre del original: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC71 79070/).
Descriptor Portuguese: Vulnerabilidade Social
Descriptor French: Vulnérabilité sociale
Entry term(s): High Social Risk
Social High Risk
Social Vulnerabilities
Vulnerabilities, Social
Vulnerability, Social
Tree number(s): I01.880.853.919
SP2.070.315.850.745
SP8.950.891
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000091482
Scope note: The characteristics of a person or community that affect their capacity to anticipate, confront, repair, and recover from the effects of a natural or human-caused disaster.(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC71 79070/)
Annotation: for issues concerning health, coordinate with SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Public MeSH Note: 2022
History Note: 2022
Related: Vulnerable Populations MeSH
DeCS ID: 59903
Unique ID: D000091482
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Date Established: 2022/01/01
Date of Entry: 2021/07/09
Revision Date: 2021/07/02
Social Vulnerability - Preferred
Concept UI M000749040
Scope note (1) Degree of susceptibility or of risk to which a population is exposed to suffer damage in a natural disaster. (2) Social vulnerability refers to the resilience of communities when confronted by external stresses on human health, stresses such as natural or human-caused disasters, or disease outbreaks. Reducing social vulnerability can decrease both human suffering and economic loss. (https://www.cdc.gov/socialdeterminants/data/index.htm)
Scope note The characteristics of a person or community that affect their capacity to anticipate, confront, repair, and recover from the effects of a natural or human-caused disaster.(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC71 79070/)
Preferred term Social Vulnerability
Entry term(s) High Social Risk
Social High Risk
Social Vulnerabilities
Vulnerabilities, Social
Vulnerability, Social



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