Vulnerable Populations

Table of Contents

Vulnerable Populations3

Introduction3

Discussion Analysis4

Child Abuse4

Physical Abuse4

Sexual abuse5

Psychological abuse5

Neglect5

Popularity6

Causes of child abuse6

Morals of child abuse7

Enabling Factors of Vulnerability9

Effects of child abuse9

Services at Kentucky10

Conclusion10

Vulnerable Populations

Introduction

Vulnerable populations are those crowds, who are not well incorporated into the health care system because of cultural, geographic, economic, ethnic, and health feature. The effects of this isolation make the groups rebellious and dishearten from the society, as they cannot obtain necessary medical care and gets possible threat to their health. Vulnerable populations have common cited examples which include ethnic and racial minorities, urban and rural pitiable, undocumented immigrants and people with multiple or disabilities unceasing conditions. There are certain reasons behind for these disparities, for instance, in the health care discipline, ethnic and racial minorities may wrap behind non-Hispanic whites, due to their practices of segregation and split those minorities. The cultural and language walls between patients and doctor or due to dissimilarities in employment practices, lead to worse rates of insurance reporting for some groups. Multiple chronic conditions and persons with disabilities can find it complicated to gain insurance coverage, because small employers cannot pay for health plans to their workers. In this case, people are bound to pay high medical costs, and encountering a reasonable insurance plan of individual with pre-existing health problems. The economic and geographic isolation of some deprived rural occupants may have access to specialty care with difficulty and even by the coverage of insurance.

Discussion Analysis

Child Abuse

Child abuse is the emotional mistreatment, physical or sexual harassment. In US, the Department for Children and Families (DCF) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identify child maltreatment as a series or acts of commission or omission by a parent or other health care provider that results in harm, threat of harm, or potential for harm to a child (Leeb, 2008). Child abuse can take place in the organizations, communities or schools and even at child's home. There are four certain chief categories of child abuse: sexual abuse, psychological abuse, physical abuse, and neglect the child. We should observe that child abuse is more than broken and bruises bones. Undoubtedly, physical abuse might be visible, but other kinds of abuse like neglect and emotional abuse also leave deep permanent marks.

Physical Abuse

It has been observed that physical abuse involves the aggression conducted on child by an adult. The deliberate infliction of serious injuries is found in most of the nation's laws about child-abuse, or activities that place the child at clear risk of serious injury or death, which is completely illegal. We find the variable consideration in these scenarios. The difference in abuse and child discipline is often badly fixed. It has been observed by few professional that cultural norms sanction physical punishment, which is one of the core causes of child abuse (Haeuser, 1990).

Sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse is a kind of ill-treatment, in which older adolescent or adult abuses a child for sexual stimulation. Sexual abuse is the harassment to pressure or ask a child to employ in sexual activities, displaying ...