The social disadvantage index was reclassified into quintiles (most to least disadvantaged).
The directly standardised rates for emergency separations for constipation were 7.47 (6.98–7.96) in the most disadvantages quintile (Q1) of IRSED and 5.80 (5.38–6.21) in least disadvantaged quintile [data not shown].Emergency separations for constipation in LGAs in Victoria varied from 2.0 to 14.7 per 10,000 population with a median of 6.5 per 10,000 population.
The Victorian Health Department found in 2006 that males from the least disadvantaged 20% of the population had a life expectancy of over three and half years more than a male from the most disadvantaged 20% of the population: This increased life expectancy occurs also for those who reached 60.
This result supports Saxe et al. (2001), which show that drug sales are more likely to be reported in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods than in the least disadvantaged, as expected on the basis of the social disorganization theory.
The minimum and maximum values of C are -1 and +1, respectively; these occur in the (hypothetical) situation where immunization is concentrated in the hand of the least disadvantaged and the most disadvantaged person, respectively.
The minimum and maximum values of C are −1 and +1, respectively; these occur in the (hypothetical) situation where costs are concentrated in the hand of the least disadvantaged and the most disadvantaged person, respectively.
We impose mutations for the loss of nitrogen use abilities in modeled picophytoplankton, and ask: in which parts of the ocean are mutants most disadvantaged by losing the ability to use nitrate, and in which parts are they least disadvantaged?
†91-100% is least disadvantaged and 0-10% is most disadvantaged.
However, the prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes was substantially higher in the least disadvantaged areas.
Similarly, our study also found larger underestimates in data from metropolitan hospitals in older and least disadvantaged groups.
Some examples of overuse in the least disadvantaged and under use in the most disadvantaged were also identified.
