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Discover LudwigThe phrase "accumulated disadvantages" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where multiple disadvantages or negative factors have built up over time, often affecting an individual or group.
Example: "The study highlighted how accumulated disadvantages in education can lead to long-term socioeconomic challenges for marginalized communities."
Alternatives: "cumulative disadvantages" or "compounded disadvantages".
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His topic will be the accumulated disadvantages faced by black Americans because of centuries of discrimination, including the lack of wealth among the black middle class.
Now on its face that may not necessarily be a problem, but there are many people in this country who are unable to work for certain reasons, who have challenges getting a foothold in the labor market, again, oftentimes because of discrimination, poor schooling, just a host of kind of accumulated disadvantages.
Some studies explore health inequity among older people from the perspective of life course and reveal that the reason for inequity is the accumulated disadvantages across different life stages for the frail elderly (Pavalko and Caputo 2013; Cheng 2004; Xu and Li 2014) but not necessarily the disparities in medical insurance.
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This difference was an accumulated disadvantage of occupation and social status since early life.
However, a priori, it would be expected that accumulated disadvantage would result in greater reductions in telomere length through longer-term exposure to more detrimental and damaging environments.
These tactics interacted with school funding inequities to accumulate disadvantages in poor minority schools, while enhancing educational achievement in wealthier and whiter districts - for decades.
Children with congenital profound hearing loss accumulate disadvantages over time in language skills and certain learning areas, which can lead to permanent limitations of personal skills at a later age.
Schools have very serious responsibilities, but to pretend a one-period high-school teacher can undo all the disadvantages accumulated before the student enters his classroom is ludicrous.
At older ages accumulated benefits or disadvantages of past marital experience, as well as current marital status, may be relevant, but fewer studies have considered effects of marital history.
The data collection of income was complemented by the assessment of home ownership (i.e. private owned homes in which the patients do not necessarily need to live themselves) serving as a measure of economic advantages or disadvantages accumulated over the life course [ 23].
Perhaps education levels alone do not capture accumulated socio-economic disadvantage to the same extent as taking parental and respondent's occupations into account.
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