Disability is a part of human life. Almost all peo-ple temporarily or permanently will be impaired at some point in their life. Disability is a universal experience with economic and social costs to indi-viduals, families, communities and nations (1). Disability results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and en-vironmental barriers that hinder their full and ef-fective participation in society on an equal basis with others (2). According to Global Burden of Disease (GBD) around 975 million people (19.4%) people 15 yr and older live with a disabil-ity. Of these, GBD estimates that 190 million (3.8%) have sever disability (1). Despite the mag-nitude of the issue, awareness of and scientifi
Disability is not a 'health problem'; however some people with disabilities do have increased health...
Disability affects over 1 billion people and the WHO estimates that over 80% of individuals with dis...
Disability and Personhood are two ideas that meet in unfortunate circumstances. Persons with disabil...
Disability as a health outcome deserves more attention than it has so far received. With people livi...
Excerpt An estimated 15 percent of the world\u27s population lives with some form of disability, wit...
Produced by The Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i and ...
This article is about disablities and people with disablities. Disability is total or temporory loss...
Many readers of DCIDJ would be aware of the ongoing interest in, and activities aimed at, the revisi...
This paper will address recent debates surrounding the nature and cause of the complex process of di...
The Preamble to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities states that “Disability re...
The article reviews components and recent discussion of the ‘Social Model of Disability’, with speci...
Multiple concepts and approaches regarding disability have been created throughout the centuries, wh...
“We have a moral duty to remove the barriers to participation, and to invest sufficient funding and ...
that 15 % of the world’s population, or one billion people, have a disability such as spinal cord in...
Disability has been socially constructed through the institutions of medicine, education, work and ...
Disability is not a 'health problem'; however some people with disabilities do have increased health...
Disability affects over 1 billion people and the WHO estimates that over 80% of individuals with dis...
Disability and Personhood are two ideas that meet in unfortunate circumstances. Persons with disabil...
Disability as a health outcome deserves more attention than it has so far received. With people livi...
Excerpt An estimated 15 percent of the world\u27s population lives with some form of disability, wit...
Produced by The Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i and ...
This article is about disablities and people with disablities. Disability is total or temporory loss...
Many readers of DCIDJ would be aware of the ongoing interest in, and activities aimed at, the revisi...
This paper will address recent debates surrounding the nature and cause of the complex process of di...
The Preamble to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities states that “Disability re...
The article reviews components and recent discussion of the ‘Social Model of Disability’, with speci...
Multiple concepts and approaches regarding disability have been created throughout the centuries, wh...
“We have a moral duty to remove the barriers to participation, and to invest sufficient funding and ...
that 15 % of the world’s population, or one billion people, have a disability such as spinal cord in...
Disability has been socially constructed through the institutions of medicine, education, work and ...
Disability is not a 'health problem'; however some people with disabilities do have increased health...
Disability affects over 1 billion people and the WHO estimates that over 80% of individuals with dis...
Disability and Personhood are two ideas that meet in unfortunate circumstances. Persons with disabil...