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A short physical performance battery assessing lower extremity function: association with self-reported disability and prediction of mortality and nursing home admission.

Journal of Gerontology, 1994
BACKGROUND A short battery of physical performance tests was used to assess lower extremity function in more than 5,000 persons age 71 years and older in three communities.
J. Guralnik, E. Simonsick, L. Ferrucci, R. Glynn, L. Berkman, D. Blazer, P. Scherr, R. B. Wallace   +7 more
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The Oswestry Disability Index.

Spine, 2000
STUDY DESIGN The Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) has become one of the principal condition-specific outcome measures used in the management of spinal disorders.
J. Fairbank, P. Pynsent
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A study of the natural history of back pain. Part I: development of a reliable and sensitive measure of disability in low-back pain.

Spine, 1983
One of the problems in mounting a trial of treatment of back pain is the lack of suitable outcome measures. This paper describes the development and validation of a questionnaire designed to measure selfrated disability due to back pain.
M. Roland, R. Morris
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Models of disability: A brief overview

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 2018
Critical reflection on the importance of shaping disability-friendly – or disability-inclusive – congregations has enjoyed increasing attention in the field of practical theology in recent years.
Oliver Kepp, Itani P Mandende
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Depression Is the Leading Cause of Disability Around the World.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2017
Potential Cause of Nodding Syndrome Identified Nodding syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy that has affected thousands of children between the ages of 5 and 15 years in East Africa, may be caused by an inappropriate immune reaction to the parasitic worm ...
M. Friedrich
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Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership

, 2006
Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theories, addressing the world and its problems, must respond to the real and changing dilemmas of the day.
M. Nussbaum
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Disability: Neurocognitive Disabilities

2013
The multiplicity of disability definitions can be attributed to the heterogeneity of disability, its multifactoral nature, and its effects across the life span. Of particular concern to the social work profession are those persons with neurocognitive disabilities.
Kevin L. DeWeaver, Lisa S. Patchner
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Disability

The Contemporary Museum, 2018
This comprehensive book features a direction, that fills direction we don't make. He has been a huge void in digital? Worth the field quality of disability this. This subject it has assembled in the authors are really.
Richard Sandell
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Disability and the Services for the Disabled in Turkey

TAF Preventive Medicine Bulletin, 2012
In Turkey there are approximately 8.5 million (% 12.3) disabled people. While the ratio of orthopedic, visual, auditory, speech, and talking disabilities and mental disability is 2.6%, the ratio of the people who have chronic diseases is 9.7% In our country, by the beginning of 1982 Constitution, there have been a lot of legal regulations.
Seval Cambaz Ulaş, Reyhan Uçku
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Disabilities, benefits, and disability benefits

International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1986
The purpose of this paper is to relate the patterns of disabilities in a sample of young adults to the amounts they received in social security benefits towards extra arising from disablement. Data on 248 young people aged 18 to 22 who lived in England were obtained by means of interviews with their parents.
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