Sentence examples for less advantaged areas from inspiring English sources

High priority should be placed on reducing these risk factors for populations in less advantaged areas to promote environmental equity.

We also recruited from areas with a range of deprivation scores, including many from less advantaged areas.

For prostate cancer there is a lower likelihood of asymptomatic screening by GPs in less advantaged areas and men from more deprived areas are less likely to be offered radical treatments.

Chancellor Joel I. Klein has tried to rejigger the testing system to be more fair, with uniform cut-offs citywide and better outreach to less-advantaged areas.

Supporting Blaxter's findings, for example, in multivariate analysis of a postal survey comparing more- and less-advantaged areas in Scotland, Macintyre et al [ 21] found that 'those more at risk of ill health may be less likely to acknowledge the social gradient in health'.

Migration from less economically advantaged areas will affect the epidemiology of diseases in 'low-incidence' host environments.

In contrast, our results found females in the most advantaged areas were less likely to have high incidence, while all other SLAs (except for very remote) were more likely to have high incidence.

The Commission found that despite modest gains in higher education participation among young people from less privileged backgrounds, students from the most advantaged areas remain nearly 10 times more likely to take up a place at a top university than those from the most disadvantaged areas.

This "inverse care law" has been further examined by Furler et al who demonstrated that patients in "lower socioeconomic areas receive less longer consultations than those in more advantaged areas" [ 55].

It is commonly expected that informal settlements in developing countries have a smaller ecological footprint than more economically advantaged areas because they consume fewer resources and use less energy.

In particular, individuals from less advantaged neighbourhoods have been described as likely to have close local networks, and fewer 'bridging' ties beyond their immediate area in comparison with counterparts in socio-economically advantaged areas who are more likely to have broadly distributed connections [ 7].