We show how the dynamic interaction between strong and weak social groups may account for these differences and their evolution.
Interestingly, when discriminators harm members of weak social groups more if they do not react against discrimination, an initial increase in minority protection immediately reduces the level of social unrest, giving rise to fluctuations, as protest starts again when discrimination is back to high levels.
Risk factors should be taken into consideration when promoting education programmes and campaigns targeted at weak social groups that are vulnerable to both eye care and health examination.
During outbreaks of plague and cholera, the fear of discrimination and mandatory quarantine and isolation led the weakest social groups and minorities to escape affected areas and, thus, contribute to spreading the disease farther and faster, as occurred regularly in towns affected by deadly disease outbreaks.
Chronic food insecurity is a problem associated with poverty, affecting social groups with the weakest and most fragile access to food, both in terms of access to social networks and safety nets or productive assets.
Weak political commitment, the silent resistance of social groups with vested interests in discriminatory practices, a lack of institutional and administrative capacity for implementing necessary reforms -- all are major factors.
High values of the CSI represent dyads that had stronger social bonds than the average female dyad in the group, and low values of the sociality index represent dyads that had weaker social bonds.
Previous surveys have underlined weak and uncertain knowledge of healthcare laws by different social groups not only in Lithuania, but in other countries as well [ 21, 22, 24, 25].
If one would reduce vulnerability to its situated dimensions, one would run the danger of discriminating against vulnerable social groups which would then be seen as deficient, weak, or even not fully accountable for life.
The greatest uptake of an intervention is amongst the highest social groups, with the lowest social classes suffering from diminished intervention coverage, weaker health services and greater disease exposure.
