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Educating Health Professionals about Disability: A Review of Interventions [PDF]

, 2013
Health professionals need to understand the human rights and health needs of disabled people. This review of evidence on interventions demonstrates that a range of often innovative approaches have been trialled.
Anderson E.S., Cervasio K., Chmar J.E., Dehaitem M.J., Delucia L.M., Disability Rights Commission, Dorji S., Freudenthal J.J., Graham C.L., Jones P., Jurczyk I., Karlowicz K.A., Kleinert H.L., Larson-McNeal M., Mullen K., Oliver M., Shakespeare T., Sharma N., Sumilo D., Symons A.B., World Health Organization, World Health Organization and World Bank   +21 more
core   +1 more source

Vaccination in people with disability: a review [PDF]

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2019
People with disabilities are vulnerable to complications from vaccine-preventable diseases, and every effort should be made to ensure equitable access to immunization for this population. This paper aims to summarize the research on immunizations in people with disabilities, in order to ensure a comprehensive understanding of knowledge in this area and
Sally Lima, Sally Lima, Fiona Newall, Giuliana Antolovich, Margie Danchin, Jenny O'Neill, Jenny O'Neill   +6 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Politically disabled: barriers and facilitating factors affecting people with disabilities in political life within the European Union

, 2020
Diversity is a current buzzword in politics, but in the EU, people with disabilities are not achieving the gains made by women and ethnic minorities. This research examined barriers and facilitating factors through a literature review and interviews with
M. Waltz, A. Schippers
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Born to Fear the Machine? Genetic and Environmental Influences on Negative Attitudes toward AI Agents

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Why do some people fear or distrust AI agents more than others? This twin study shows that negative attitudes toward AI may partly stem from genetic factors, linking them to traits like victim sensitivity and moral beliefs. These findings show that it is not only nurture but also nature that shapes our views of AI, with implications for future human–AI
Xiaojiayu Tan, Yue He, Yuan Zhou, Xinying Li, Qingwen Ding, Yikai Tang, Yu L. L. Luo, Ruolei Gu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quality of life predictors in physically disabled people

Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2018
BACKGROUND: Physically disabled people experience more restrictions in social activities than healthy people, which are associated with lower level of well-being and poor quality of life (QoL). STUDY DESIGN: A cross-sectional study was conducted METHODS:
Fatemeh Rajati, Hosein Ashtarian, Nader Salari, Masood Ghanbari, Zahra Naghibifar, S. Hosseini   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

High Linearity and Symmetry Ferroelectric Artificial Neuromorphic Devices Based on Ultrathin Indium‐Tin‐Oxide Channels

Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Ultrathin ITO and ferroelectric HZO are used to fabricate synaptic transistors. The device has a great on/off ratio ≈108 with a memory window of 1.73 V, successfully simulates the characteristics of the human brain, and achieves good linearity of 0.45 for potential and 0.73 for depression and low asymmetry of 0.89.
Siwei Wang, Xuemeng Hu, Baifan Qian, Jiajie Yu, Zhenhai Li, Qingqing Sun, David Wei Zhang, Qingxuan Li, Lin Chen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Independent Living Movement in the UK [PDF]

, 2003
[Excerpt] The origin of the Independent Living Movement in the UK go back to the late 1970s. Disabled People in the UK, like many other disabled people in other Countries were very disenchanted by the services being provided for them at this time ...
Evans, John
core   +1 more source

Solving the Amyloid Paradox: Unveiling the Complex Pathogenicity of Amyloid Fibrils

Aggregate, EarlyView.
This review addresses the gap between strong evidence for the involvement of amyloid fibrils in neurodegeneration and the failure of anti‐amyloid therapies, a phenomenon herein termed the “amyloid paradox.” To address this paradox, we provide a comprehensive summary of the current understanding of fibrils' pathogenic properties and mechanisms ...
Maksim I. Sulatsky, Olesya V. Stepanenko, Olga V. Stepanenko, Anna I. Sulatskaya   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

CAPTCHA Accessibility Study of Online Forums [PDF]

, 2011
The rise of online forums has benefited disabled users, who take advantage of better communications and more inclusion into society. However, even with accessibility laws that are supposed to provide disabled people the same equal access as non-disabled ...
Barnes, Sue, Kuzma, Joanne, Oestreicher, Klaus   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Disabled people’s experiences of accessing reasonable adjustments in hospitals: a qualitative study

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
BackgroundThe UK Equality Act 2010 requires providers of health services to make changes or ‘reasonable adjustments’ to their practices in order to protect disabled people from discrimination or disadvantage when accessing care.
Stuart Read, P. Heslop, S. Turner, Victoria Mason-Angelow, Nadine Tilbury, C. Miles, C. Hatton   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source