Does blindness count? Disability weights for vision loss

Low vision and blindness.

A single-topic issue of the Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development provides a unique opportunity to present new information and to interest new research professionals in meeting the challenges faced by persons with a visual disability. That a single-topic issue of a VA journal is devoted to the area of low vision and blindness is appropriate. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ...

Representing vision and blindness

BACKGROUND There have been relatively few attempts to represent vision or blindness ontologically. This is unsurprising as the related phenomena of sight and blindness are difficult to represent ontologically for a variety of reasons. Blindness has escaped ontological capture at least in part because: blindness or the employment of the term 'blindness' seems to vary from context to context, bli...

Disability Weights for Cancers in Korea

This study renewed the estimation of disability weights for cancers in Korea, reflecting the nation's economic and medical-technological development during the past 10 yr. Thirty-two medical doctors evaluated disability weights for 24 major cancers based on the visual analogue scale (VAS) method. To check the intra-rater reliability, a correlation was calculated between 2011 and 2012 medians. T...

How to derive disability weights

Color-Vision and Color-Blindness

Special public attention was called to the subject in 1875 by an enquiry into the causes of a railway accident which had taken place in Sweden, from which it appears that colourblindness was the cause of the disaster. Our author having described colour-sensations, goes on to discuss the theories of colour-perception and colour-blindness, classifying the latter defect as total and partial. Total...