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Achieving Quality Services: A Checklist for Evaluating Your Agency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
[Excerpt] In recent years, several trends have led state service systems to focus more directly on employment as an expected outcome of service delivery for many individuals who have traditionally experienced difficulty in successfully maintaining ...
Institute for Community Inclusion
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Testing a Personalized Approach to Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Older Veterans

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to test the efficacy of personalized treatment of older veterans with chronic low back pain (CLBP) delivered by Aging Back Clinics (ABCs) as compared with usual care (UC). Methods Two hundred ninety‐nine veterans aged 65 to 89 with CLBP from three Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers underwent baseline testing, randomization to ABC ...
Debra K. Weiner   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disability management in the workplace: Problems and trends in Latvia

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2018
People with disabilities are a largely untapped employment resource in many countries. About 48.5% of people with disabilities are employed in the European Union (EU), compared with only 24.4% in Latvia. Although there has been some progress on employing
Oborenko Zaiga   +2 more
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Sudan Country Profile [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
[From Introduction] The country study for Sudan is part of the ILO project \u27Employment of People with Disabilities – the Impact of Legislation\u27, funded by the Government of Ireland, which aims to enhance the capacity of national governments in ...
ILO InFocus Programme on Skills, Knowledge and Employability   +1 more
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Association Between Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis and Target Glycemic Control in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Knee osteoarthritis (OA) commonly affects individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and is associated with increased risk of diabetes‐related complications. To better understand potential mechanisms, we examined the association between symptomatic knee OA and glycemic control in individuals with T2DM.
Lauren K. King   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The attitudes of people with disabilities who participated in vocational rehabilitation and specialists towards possibilities for application of vocational training and employment models

open access: yesSocial Welfare: Interdisciplinary Approach, 2016
The article deals with the attitude of people with disabilities who participated in vocational rehabilitation and vocational training specialists towards the possibilities for application of vocational training models and models of workplaces for the ...
Laima Tomėnienė
doaj   +1 more source

Real Trends or Measurement Problems? Disability and Employment Trends from the Survey of Income and Program Participation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This paper addresses important concerns in using statistical data to track outcomes of people with disabilities and provides new evidence of employment trends of people with disabilities using alternative disability conceptualizations from the Survey of ...
David Wittenburg, Elaine Maag
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Associations of Sleep and Shift Work With Osteoarthritis Risk

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Daily rhythms may be critical for maintaining homeostasis of joint tissues. We aimed to investigate the relationships among circadian clock disruption, sleep, and osteoarthritis (OA) risk in humans. Methods In the UK Biobank, a prospective 500,000–person cohort, we evaluated associations among sleep duration, sleeplessness/insomnia, and shift
Elizabeth L. Yanik   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE INTEGRATION OF DISABLED PEOPLE INTO THE OPEN LABOUR MARKET: A SOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVE

open access: yesSocial Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2004
It has been established that people with disabilities are in most cases excluded from society and major activities in society such as social recreation and employment in the open labour market.
L Naude, CSL Delport
doaj   +1 more source

Serving People with Disabilities through the Workforce Investment Act's One-Stop Career Centers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This paper examines the extent to which people with disabilities are served through WIA's One-Stop system and discusses its capacity to serve people with disabilities who desire employment assistance, both in terms of common barriers to access as well as
Burt S. Barnow, Pamela A. Holcomb
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