Creating a Healthier Future for Persons with disabilities - „Accepting Diversity“

Creating a healthier future through early interventions for children.

Discounting the Cost of Future Care for Persons with Disabilities

To calculate the expected present value (EPV) of a plaintiff's lifetime cost of care we require a survival distribution or a life table. Several methods for producing an approximate distribution are currently used. The most common of these may be "rating up": a plaintiff with a reduced life expectancy is assigned a rated age, older than the actual age, chosen to give the correct life expectancy...

Creating healthier societies.

When governments think about health, attention is usually on the cost of health care as that is where the money goes. The causes of ill-health tend to take second place. To the extent that causes intrude on policy-makers, a convenient, but loose, dichotomy presents itself: in the poorer countries of the world the burden of ill-health is the result of infectious disease linked to poor environmen...

Antibody Engineering for Pursuing a Healthier Future

Since the development of antibody-production techniques, a number of immunoglobulins have been developed on a large scale using conventional methods. Hybridoma technology opened a new horizon in the production of antibodies against target antigens of infectious pathogens, malignant diseases including autoimmune disorders, and numerous potent toxins. However, these clinical humanized or chimeric...

Sheltered employment for persons with disabilities

S employment is expanding in many countries with various types of institutions offering an increasing number of positions to persons with disabilities who wish to work. The structures involved are also showing a growing desire for recognition as full participants in the economy and as employing higher professional standards. In fact, many providers of sheltered employment are now using manageme...