It's because of so many reasons, such as inequalities, social deprivation and unemployment.
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But diagnosis and the language of biological illness obscure the causal role of factors such as abuse, poverty and social deprivation.
The NIAO report also found a "strong correlation between between low levels of academic achievement and free school meal entitlement (an indicator of social deprivation)".
She admits she is still shocked by the level of social deprivation in the south Wales valleys, but also positive of plans and potential investment within them.
The government's new cross-cutting units are enabling it to address issues, particularly those related to social deprivation, that had previously been largely ignored by Whitehall's departmental baronies.
Lead researcher Louise Bamfield conceded that medical advances meant more low birth weight babies were now surviving, but she said social deprivation and low income were significant factors.
The report also concluded that "social deprivation appears to have a greater negative impact on achievement levels in controlled (mainly Protestant) schools than in their maintained (mainly Catholic) counterparts".
There was a strong relationship between social context and the relative level of rejected ballots - the greater the degree of social deprivation in a constituency, the higher the rate of ballot rejections.
However, despite experiencing stable economic growth in recent years, investment in the social services sector has been restricted and, as a result, poverty and social deprivation are still endemic, particularly in marginalised rural and urban communities.
Many of those who were remanded for trial appeared to come from just those kinds of backgrounds evidence, as some commentators saw it, that the root causes of the disorders lay in social deprivation and despair.
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"Important factors, such as social deprivation, haven't been considered anywhere near as well as they should have been in making the decision to put libraries such as Ewell Court forward to be run by volunteers, " said Councillor Jan Mason.
Crucially the correlation persists even when the figures are adjusted for confounding factors like social deprivation and drug use, but what's really remarkable is that they even seem to reflect the speed at which lead additives in petrol were phased out.
Psychosocial stress from relative deprivation, disrupted social cohesion, disinvestment in social capital and underinvestment in human resources have all been cited as possible contributors to this phenomenon.
The unionist forum will also discuss other social, economic and political matters, including deprivation and educational underachievement in the unionist community and the low level of unionist voter registration and turnout.
So social safety net policies to protect the poor from deprivation and want are justified on these grounds, as indicated at the outset.
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Moreover, a liberal such as this reformed ex-rationalist might also argue, albeit while in the throes of sleep deprivation and having suffered from multiple starvation-induced hallucinations, that gift-giving is a social good because it tends to redistribute income from the top to the bottom.
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