victims of history...

I believe "vulnerable populations" are definitely victims and social/ethnic/health disparities have definitely been key in identifying the inequalities that these "vulnerable populations" face. This picture puts it best for me:


The slide defines social disparities as: (1) a result of hundreds of years of inequalities in access to education, employment, and economic opportunities (2) a result of real and perceived barriers due to institutionalized racism, generational cycles of dependency, and political priorities.