Dear Colleagues,

The best way to promote and protect the health and safety of the population with special needs is via the use of real justice and equality national policy. People with special needs include not only vulnerable groups—like people with disabilities, elders, indigenous people, and pregnant women—but also the stakeholders of special events, like residents who live in natural hazard potential areas or the overdeveloped/underdeveloped areas and the accurate measurement indicators of health equality and resources allocation development, etc. The justice and equality national policies urgently need more rigorous and transparent empirical data and evaluation information.

There is evidence that the health problems reflected by regional differences imply the distribution of harmful substances, such as the socio-economic status, education level, health resource allocation, behavioural use, and pollution spread of various populations. Therefore, more accurate measurement is needed to provide better strategies to solve the health disparity caused by social factors. On the other hand, most of the disasters, potential damages or losses caused by natural changes in the environment to humans and their residential communities are largely related to human activities. The disasters involve social development, technology and political aspects, so the relationship lies between related issues. The health and safety of the stakeholders and the priority of policy considerations are issues worthy of in-depth discussion.

The keywords listed below provide an outline of some of the possible areas of interest.

Prof. Dr. Chia-Feng Yen
Dr. Shyang-Woei Lin
Guest Editors

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• health disparity
• health equality indicators
• natural hazard potential areas
• nature disasters
• population with special needs
• resources allocation justices
• resources allocation indicators