scholarly journals Entrepreneurship perception among vulnerable population groups in Romania

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 718-727
Author(s):  
Carmen Păunescu ◽  
Alexandra Ioana Pascu ◽  
Adina Filculescu ◽  
Raluca Badea
Keyword(s):  
Career Choice ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Vulnerable Population ◽  
Population Groups ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
Vulnerable Population Groups ◽  
Starting A Business

Abstract This paper aims to explore the entrepreneurship perception among diverse populations in Romania typically seen as vulnerable. It also aims to provide support regarding how the concept might be useful in considering and designing alternative policy interventions. The vulnerable population groups studied in the paper differ by age (seniors), gender (females), income (low income population) and residence (rural community). The paper attempts to answer three research questions: (1) how attitudes towards entrepreneurship differ among vulnerable population groups; (2) how intention of starting a business varies among studied population; and (3) what is the likelihood and desirability of studied population to consider entrepreneurship as a career choice. The data analysed in the paper are extracted from the Amway Global Entrepreneurship Report (AGER) developed for Romania, for the period 2014-2016. Analysis is conducted by taken into consideration the following dimensions of the “entrepreneurship perception”: attitude towards entrepreneurship, intention of starting a business, entrepreneurship as a career choice, and likelihood of self-employment. The paper aims to contribute to advancing research on the less addressed and less understood entrepreneurship perception among vulnerable populations. In the paper we make recommendations for governmental institutions that are meant to contribute to designing policy interventions that will nurture entrepreneurship spirit in Romania.

Solo Athumani Solo

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmut Spitzer
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Vulnerable Population ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Population Groups ◽  
Work Practitioner ◽  
Vulnerable Population Groups

Solo Athumani Solo (1959–2004) was an influential social work practitioner and educator in Tanzania. His professional life was dedicated to the advocacy of children’s rights and the empowerment of marginalized and vulnerable population groups.

scholarly journals Ameliorating health-care delivery to the vulnerable population groups

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
SaurabhRamBihariLal Shrivastava ◽  
PrateekSaurabh Shrivastava
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Vulnerable Population ◽  
Population Groups ◽  
Vulnerable Population Groups

scholarly journals Masks for at-risk population: nursing promoting biosafety in pandemic times

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (spe) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Abrahão-Curvo ◽  
Karina Dal Sasso Mendes ◽  
Angelina Lettiere-Viana ◽  
Maria Cândida de Carvalho Furtado ◽  
Thatiana Delatorre ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Vulnerable Population ◽  
Educational Video ◽  
Risk Population ◽  
Population Groups ◽  
Population At Risk ◽  
Role Of Nursing ◽  
Vulnerable Population Groups

ABSTRACT Objective To describe a proposal for making and distributing masks for population in risk, with guidance on the stages of making them and the care in handling them based on the development of educational video and infographic. Method Experience report on the stages of the process of training people to make fabric masks for the population at risk, between March and June 2020, in a city in the interior of São Paulo. Results 1,650 masks were made and distributed to vulnerable population groups from different contexts and tutorial video and infographic were elaborated and released to enable people to make their own masks with resources available at home. Final considerations It was possible to manufacture and distribute masks for the population at risk and develop educational actions to contain the disease, given the advance of confirmed cases and deaths by Covid-19, corroborating the role of nursing in health education.

scholarly journals A Multi-Decadal Spatial Analysis of Demographic Vulnerability to Urban Flood: A Case Study of Birmingham City, USA

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9139
Author(s):  
Mohammad Khalid Hossain ◽  
Qingmin Meng
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Census Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vulnerable Population ◽  
Scan Statistics ◽  
Flood Hazards ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
Population Groups ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Vulnerable Population Groups

Flooding, including hurricanes and tornadoes, accounts for approximately 40 percent of natural disasters worldwide and kills 100 people on average in the United States each year, which is more than any other single weather hazard. Since flooding is a common hazard in the U.S. and flood-related casualties have been increasing in recent years, it is important to understand the spatial patterns of different vulnerable population groups in the flooding regions. To achieve this objective, spatial scan statistics were used to identify the spatial clusters of different demographic groups (children and elderly, poor, White, African American, and Hispanic) in the 100-year floodplain areas of Birmingham. Using the decennial census data from 1990 to 2015, this research examined whether these vulnerable population groups had aggregated more in the flooding areas or moved away from the flooding areas in the past thirty years. The findings of this research indicate that most of the minorities are increasingly aggregating in the floodplain areas of Village Creek in Birmingham. The findings also suggest that the non-minorities are moving away from the flooding regions in Birmingham, AL. As part of the minorities and non-minorities group, approximately 50 percent of African Americans and 4 percent of White populations aggregated in the Village Creek flooding areas in 2015. Although the percentage of White populations is very low, the findings suggest that they are still exposed to floods. The multi-decadal analysis of flood risk will help the local governments to understand which population groups could be more affected by floods historically and need more attention in future flood hazards. This understanding will help them prepare for future flood hazards by allocating resources efficiently among the different racial and ethnic groups.

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