OBJECTIVES To determine the demands on healthcare resources caused by different types of illnesses and variation with age and sex. DESIGN Information on healthcare use was obtained from all 22 healthcare sectors in the Netherlands. Most important sectors (hospitals, nursing homes, inpatient psychiatric care, institutions for mentally disabled people) have national registries. Total expenditur...

A HANDICAPPED child is a child who cannot play, work or do the things other children of his age can do, or who is hindered in achieving his full physical, mental and social potentiality . . This is the definition of the 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth. President Kennedy, in his short, meteoric term of office, gave a tremendous boost to the parents of these children, and to the...

Abstract: Communication is an important element in the life of society. In everyday, people communicate verbally using language or words, but not all humans are able to interact only verbal communication. Humans who less than perfect, such as with mental disability, find it difficult receive messages language. Mental disability a and intellectual disorder below average. As Karangpatihan Village...

The question of how countries deal with the material and symbolic legacies of totalitarian rule, genocide, and civil war in their immediate pasts is spawning a growing body of research on recent national and regional cases — post-apartheid South Africa, postcommunist central and eastern Europe, and post-dictatorial South America — as well as on the ‘classic’ instances of postwar Japan and Germa...

Proposals for a new, community-based service for the mentally handicapped.

I thought you might like to know about a very successful experiment carried out a short time ago. Its purpose was to try to promote a more Natural healthy attitude to the mentally handicapped, both on the part of normal boys and girls and also of their parents.

This book is the product of a working party, set up by the Church Information Nice. It sets out the ways in which needs of the mentally handicapped child and s Parents may be met, gives clear and practical advice on the religious training these children, and shows how they and their families can be incorporated in the "fistian fellowship of their community and parish. Particularly valuable is t...