In particular, states may not deprive persons of citizenship arbitrarily, for discriminatory reasons.
32 Although the factors constituting poverty and discrimination linked to mental illness potentially can deprive persons of many resources, 33 34 the dynamics of poverty, discrimination and mental health have not been fully addressed.
In this sense, too, poverty is a deprivation of capabilities: poverty deprives persons of possibilities (resources, structures) to realize a particular potential; it deprives poor people of the understanding of their own potential; and, very often, it deprives poor people (because of malnourishment, for instance) of potential.
In addition, night shift work has been linked to chronic partial sleep deprivation [ 20], and chronically deprived persons frequently have the subjective impression that they have adapted to this situation because they do not feel particularly sleepy [ 21].
According to Addressing Police Misconduct, a pamphlet from the Department of Justice, there is a police misconduct provision that "makes it unlawful for State or local law enforcement officers to engage in a pattern or practice of conduct that deprives persons of rights protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
In 2004 a law has changed the civil code, and in place of the traditional institutions of guardianship and tutelage, which completely deprived persons of their legal rights, legal agency is now focused on care and assistance [16].
Hungry and deprived persons suffer from a number of nutritional deficiencies and negative health conditions [ 1].
For example, the difference in life expectancy between the most deprived and least deprived persons in the United States has been found to be 4.5 years (6).
This pragmatic policy decision is supported by and lends support to the concept of a social gradient in health; that the most deprived persons even within an already deprived population, have greater general health treatment needs [ 39].
We have successfully applied the PCR assay to lice from homeless and economically deprived persons in inner cities of developed countries and found high prevalences of Bartonella quintana infections (3, 5, 6).
Even though the results show significantly more slowing of the EEG in patients compared to controls, which is similar to that shown in sleep deprived persons, the cause of sleepiness cannot be identified.
