Shortfall in learning disability nurse numbers sparks fears for the future.Nurse Stuart Gray, deputy director of governance at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, believes his openness about being gay has never hindered his career progression.Jennifer Sprinks...
Disability-adjusted life years (DALY) have been proposed by the World Bank and the WHO as a measure of the global impact of disease on individual illness status. DALY combines information about morbidity and mortality and is expressed in terms of numbers of healthy years lost. In the DALY app...
Though centrally sponsored anti-poverty programmes have reservations for people with disabilities, the numbers who have benefited are well below the minimum laid down. The new National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has dropped reservations for the disabled entirely, though some states (e.g. AP) are...
tend to have significantly better cognitive and physical functional status. untangling the relationship between compression of morbidity and compression of disability, 2 concepts that have previously been used interchangeably, may shed additional light on the various ways in which people can survive to ex...
Functioning and Health, which took place in Sierra Leone, West Africa: the desire to live in a community of people with disabilities; the desire to be recognized as equal citizens and be given equal opportunities; the desire to become economically independent; and a high expectation of ...
of the population — had a disability, according tothe American Community Survey, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. An estimated 1.3 billion people have a significant disability worldwide,according to the World Health Organization, which is 16% of the global population, or 1 in 6 people....
While most doctors will tell you that medication is the best solution, thethree primary causes of depression are known: poor diet, lack of sunlight, andspiritual anemia. People today are suffering from a serious lack of connection to themselves and to the natural world, and as pharmaceutical co...
Modern medicine has increased the survival rate for stroke patients; however, the patient’s psychosocial adaptation after stroke onset may be related to the clinical outcomes. This study aimed to investigate patients’ acceptance of disability (AOD) and its predictors in stroke patients. Methods This...
In the only previous study examining cohort differences in the health of older people in the UK [16], expansion of self-reported ill-health was evident although ADL disability appeared to have improved. As for self-reported information on diseases, increases in disability over time could be due...
Modern surgical care packages for disfigured people address not only the physical challenges their acquired disfigurement presents, but also the psychological trauma of waking with a new face (a trauma that, arguably, is repeated several times if surgery takes place in stages). To what extent...