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Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years for 29 Cancer Groups From 2010 to 2019

open access: yesJAMA Oncology, 2021
Key Points Question What was the burden of cancer globally and across Sociodemographic Index (SDI) groupings in 2019, and how has incidence, morbidity, and mortality changed since 2010?
Jonathan M Kocarnik   +499 more
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Physicians' Perceptions Of People With Disability And Their Health Care.

open access: yesHealth Affairs, 2021
More than sixty-one million Americans have disabilities, and increasing evidence documents that they experience health care disparities. Although many factors likely contribute to these disparities, one little-studied but potential cause involves ...
L. Iezzoni   +7 more
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Factors Affecting the Perception of Disability: A Developmental Perspective

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Perception of disability is an important construct affecting not only the well-being of individuals with disabilities, but also the moral compass of the society.
Iryna Babik, Elena S. Gardner
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Rethinking Disability [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Medicine, 2018
Disability as a health outcome deserves more attention than it has so far received. With people living longer and the epidemiological transition from infectious to noncommunicable diseases as the major cause of health burden, we need to focus attention on disability - the non-fatal impact of heath conditions - over and above our concern for causes of ...
Cieza, Alarcos   +3 more
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Lower extremity function and subsequent disability: consistency across studies, predictive models, and value of gait speed alone compared with the short physical performance battery.

open access: yesThe journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 2000
BACKGROUND Although it has been demonstrated that physical performance measures predict incident disability in previously nondisabled older persons, the available data have not been fully developed to create usable methods for determining risk profiles ...
J. Guralnik   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Disability and Disability Culture

open access: yes, 2017
Social work has a rich history in working for the rights of people in society. The profession’s commitment to vulnerable and oppressed people and groups are codified in national and international ethical standards. Social justice and respecting the dignity and worth of people are core ethical principles.
Ryan Parrey, Romel W. Mackelprang
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Prevalence of Disabilities and Health Care Access by Disability Status and Type Among Adults — United States, 2016

open access: yesMMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2018
Persons with disabilities face greater barriers to health care than do those without disabilities (1). To identify characteristics of noninstitutionalized adults with six specific disability types (hearing, vision, cognition, mobility, self-care, and ...
Catherine Okoro   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Madness as disability [PDF]

open access: yesHistory of Psychiatry, 2014
How does society imagine mental illness? Does this shift radically over time and with different social attitudes as well as scientific discoveries about the origins and meanings of mental illness? What happens when we begin to think about mental illness as madness, as a malleable concept constantly shifting its meaning?
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The Promise of Empathy: Design, Disability, and Knowing the "Other"

open access: yesInternational Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019
This paper examines the promise of empathy, the name commonly given to the initial phase of the human-centered design process in which designers seek to understand their intended users in order to inform technology development.
Cynthia L. Bennett, D. Rosner
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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