The frequency of the median oscillator within each of these deprived groups therefore moves further from that of the external force.
In fact, [ 24] found that the perception of care differs according to the level of 'engagement'k[ 17] and showed how lower levels of this perception are evident in most of the 'least deprived' groups and in almost none of the 'most deprived' groups.
While the show focuses on a few wealthy individuals, the Gypsy and Traveller community is one of the most deprived groups in Britain, with a life expectancy 12 years below the national average.
For 5-year survival, the average change in the deprivation gradient was statistically significant at +2.5% every 5 years in favour of the most deprived groups.
Our findings are consistent with data from England showing equitable management of CHD in deprived groups, 27 and specifically in South Asian patients.
Because of the skewed distribution towards more deprived categories of the South Asians, the slower survival increase in this population reported here could reflect more generally the experience of the most deprived groups in the population.
Our results fit with previous findings that a greater proportion of people in deprived groups had Rose Angina, but there was no difference in the proportions receiving a general practitioner diagnosis of coronary heart disease.
Apart from the reference cohort and the index IHD cohort, there were more women than men non-responders, and around a quarter of the most deprived groups were non-responders in all study cohorts.
The prevalence of smoking in the general population differs between socio-economic groups: in 2008, the prevalence of smoking in deprived groups (routine and manual socio-economic category) was 29%, compared to 14% in the most affluent (managerial and professional socio-economic category) (Office for National Statistics, 2010).
46 Analyses may be complicated by the apparent dichotomy in the drinking behaviour of the most deprived groups who are the most likely not to drink at all, or to drink little within the moderate drinking category but also the most likely to drink at harmful levels.
