inflation pressure | pre-charge pressure

vulnerable status

Fall due to leaning on insecure furniture

high air pressure from rapid descent in water reduction in atmospheric pressure while surfacing from:deep-water diving | underground | residence or prolonged visit at high altitude as the cause of:anoxia | barodontalgia | barotitis | hypoxia | mountain sickness | sudden change in air pressure in aircraft during ascent or descent

Accident due to high or low air pressure or changes in air pressure due to diving

anticyclone [ high | high-pressure system | high-pressure area | high pressure area | area of high pressure ]

high pressure hose

precarious employment | precarious job | precarious work

These include population growth and increased pressure on resources, rural poverty, low productivity, weakened terms-of-trade, insecure access to land and water, weak governance, insecurity and prolonged geo-political instability.

Services such as healthcare, accommodation, employment and training services and childcare face considerable pressures. This is due not only to the situation in the host country itself, which may be precarious; it is also due to the potential shortage of skilled healthcare workers able to tend to the needs of refugees, such as mental health, post-traumatic stress and gender-based violence.

B. whereas the Russian pressure most recently faced by Eastern Partnership countries progressing on the road to Association Agreements, including targeted sanctions against Ukraine’s exports, an export ban on the Moldovan wine industry, additional obstacles impeding progress towards resolution of the Transnistrian conflict, and security-related threats with respect to Armenia, which are aimed at forcing the Eastern Partnership countries not to sign or initial the Association Agreements or DCFTAs but instead to join the Russian-led Customs Union, which Russia intends to transform into a Eurasian Union, has put them in a precarious positi ...[+++]on as a result of geopolitical constraints to which they should not be subject;

AA. whereas many jobs in the healthcare and care sector in some Member States are still poorly paid, often not offering formal contracts and other basic labour rights and have low attractiveness because of the high risk of physical and emotional stress, the threat of burnout, and a lack of career development opportunities; whereas the sector offers little training and, moreover, its employees are predominantly ageing people, women and migrant workers; whereas care in the EU is often provided by informal unpaid carers, who themselves can be considered a vulnerable group due to increasing pressures to provide more sophisticated and techn ...[+++]ical levels of care; whereas a number of Member States lack a quality care service that is available to all regardless of income;