Some of the key policies focused on disadvantaged groups including dalits, women, disabled and elderly people, whilst helping to increase coverage of the health programmes in more remote and underserved areas.
Primary care has potential for successful interventions focused on disadvantaged groups because it offers a trusted source of continuity across an individual's lifespan, often serving entire families or generations.
So far, critics of the coalition government's welfare reform programme have focused on its impact on disadvantaged groups, the increased inequities it will cause and its overall lack of an evidence base.
The costs and health burdens of not breastfeeding fall disproportionately and increasingly on disadvantaged groups.
Systematic reviews have been challenged to consider effects on disadvantaged groups.
There have been a large number of studies on informal help but they have focused on specific disadvantaged groups, such as gay men with HIV [ 10] or partner abuse [ 11] or demographic groups such as young people [ 12], and ethnic minority groups [ 13, 14].
Although practitioners' work to address health inequalities was limited by the programme's focus on working with disadvantaged groups, findings illustrate how classed practices are linked to the challenges of attracting and successfully engaging with such groups.
With an increased focus on communes with disadvantaged groups, the trial might have the potential to achieve an even larger reduction of neonatal mortality.
Only a few quit and win competitions have focused on disadvantaged population groups.
Therefore there is a need for programmes specifically focused on disadvantaged population groups.
As a result, a growing body of research has focused on this disadvantaged group.
