Children with disabilities face more barriers accessing preventive health services. Prior research has documented disparities in the receipt of these services. However, most are limited to specific types of disability or care. This study investigates disparities in the use of preventive health care among children with disabilities in Taiwan. Three nationwide databases from the Ministry of the I...

CONTEXT Treatment for depression can be expensive and depression can affect the use of other medical services, yet there is little information on how depression affects the prevalence of cost-related medication nonadherence (CRN) in elderly patients and patients with disabilities. OBJECTIVE To quantify the presence of CRN in depressed and nondepressed elderly Medicare beneficiaries and noneld...

The World Health Organization has declared that violence is a global public health problem. The prevalence of violence exposure among adults with intellectual and unspecific disabilities has been demonstrated in several studies, whereas only a few articles on people with sensory disabilities have been published. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and risk for exposure to ph...

Results are reported from the National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special Education Students. Dropout rates were high: 30% of students with disabilities dropped out of high school, and another 8% dropped out before entering high school. The average dropout with disabilities was 18 years old at the time of leaving but had earned less than half the credits needed to graduate. Employment suc...

Disability is usually referred to as an individual’s disadvantage. Helping a person with disability is perceived as an act of distribution of benefits and sharing of burdens. Persons with disabilities make up a significant part of the world’s population an estimated 1 in every 10 people, amounting to 650 million people (UNFA REPORT 2009). This includes persons who are blind, deaf, or have other...

BACKGROUND Adults with intellectual disabilities have increased early mortality compared with the general population. However, their extent of multimorbidity (two or more additional conditions) compared with the general population is unknown, particularly with regards to physical ill-health, as are associations between comorbidities, neighbourhood deprivation, and age. METHODS We analysed pri...

OBJECTIVES The study aims to assess the impact of municipal waste loading occupation upon developing musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and thereby disabilities among waste loaders. Additionally, the study has identified the potential risk factors raising MSDs and disabilities. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional case-control design survey was conducted in 6 out of 24 municipal wards of Mumb...

The immense and important research on the sexual abuse of women often ignores disability, and disability research rarely considers the sexual abuse of women with disabilities. Similarly, service providers and various advocates often fail to connect these crucial issues. For example, although legislation such as the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act affirmed, “that disabled persons have been ...

BACKGROUND Little information exists on the receipt of mammography by African American women with intellectual disabilities. Given the high rates of mortality from breast cancer among African American women and low screening rates among women with intellectual disabilities, it is important to understand the health screening behavior of this population. OBJECTIVE We compared rates of mammograp...