The phrase "afflicted groups" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to communities or populations that are suffering from specific issues or challenges, such as health problems, social injustices, or economic hardships.
Example: "The charity aims to provide support and resources to afflicted groups in the region, helping them to overcome their struggles."
Alternatives: "disadvantaged communities" or "marginalized populations."
But in the decades that followed, conservatives came to believe that the problem was not the pronouncements of victimhood from the afflicted groups — blacks, women, gays — but that they had a monopoly over the matter.
More importantly, within the afflicted groups, both the mice and humans had similarly poor performance in the hidden target trials, making the Morris Maze Test a useful tool for comparing our two species, the researchers say.
For cervical cancer, the most commonly afflicted age group is women in their late 30s to early 40s; the affliction of young women is usually emphasized [ 2– 4].
And, as I've already quoted the ASI as identifying above, "social settings characterised by too little diversity of viewpoints are liable to become afflicted by group think, a dysfunctional atmosphere where key assumptions go unquestioned, dissenting opinions are neutralised, and favoured beliefs are held as sacrosanct". .
This is bad – the ASI says – because "social settings characterised by too little diversity of viewpoints are liable to become afflicted by group think, a dysfunctional atmosphere where key assumptions go unquestioned, dissenting opinions are neutralised and favoured beliefs are held as sacrosanct".
I said then that paganism in general resists overall organisation (though see above with regard to charity work) and thus tends to be less open to the kind of cult formation that afflicts other groups.
The hypothesis being tested was that the group where participants never interacted would be the most creative on the task, largely because they wouldn't succumb to the groupthink and other challenges that afflict group working.
In developing countries, the identification of afflicted populations and groups potentially requiring attention are key factors for the organization and adequacy of health services and the planning of health programs.
LITTLE WHITE LIES New tensions afflict a group of Parisian friends as they embark together on their annual vacation.
The cathartic elimination of an individual thought to embody all the evils afflicting the group temporarily restores unity and makes possible the founding of a new order.
American officials and European experts largely see European national leaders as focused on their own debates about Greece and the debt crisis afflicting the group of countries that use the euro, divided over China and Russia and tired of Afghanistan.
