Objective: Leprosy is an infectious disease which may lead to disability before, during or after treatment. There have been different reports about the prevalence of disabilities in leprosy patients. This study is about the status of disabilities in live leprosy patients in Kurdistan province. Methodology: This was a descriptive–analytic study. The live patients who were accessible and had been...

BACKGROUND Women with disabilities in Zimbabwe face numerous challenges in accessing sexual and reproductive health. Cultural belief still regards them as not sexually active. The government has also failed to promote policies that facilitate access to sexual and reproductive services by women with disabilities. OBJECTIVES The reseach objectives were to explore the challenges faced by women w...

BACKGROUND Despite concerns raised in the literature on the adverse pregnancy outcomes of women with physical disabilities, there is little information about unmet needs of women with physical disabilities during pregnancy and childbirth. OBJECTIVE This article provides an in-depth examination of unmet health care needs during and around the time of pregnancy among a sample of women with phys...

OBJECTIVES To examine the characteristics of smoking among adults with disabilities in Massachusetts. DESIGN Data were obtained from the 1996-1999 Massachusetts Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a random digit dial telephone survey. Respondents reporting use of special equipment or a limitation caused by impairment or health problem were classified as having a disability. Adults wit...

Employers' negative attitudes and fears have long been a barrier to the employment of individuals with disabilities Accordingly, attitude literature on the employment of people with disabilities has focused almost exclusively on employers However, due to their influence over business practices, the successful employment of people with disabilities is also contingent on the views of the consumer...

BACKGROUND A decade has passed since South Africa signed and ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a human rights treaty that protects the rights and dignity of people with disabilities. However, not much have changed for students with disabilities. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to explore lecturers' experiences with, and perspectives on, disability as wel...

The prevalence of hypertension among people with disabilities is not well understood. We combined data from the 2001-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to obtain estimates of hypertension prevalence by disability status and type (cognitive, hearing, vision, or mobility limitation) and assess the association between disability and hypertension. Overall, 34% of adults with disa...

Although the nearly one in seven Americans who have disabilities share many characteristics, the attitudes toward and the programs, care models, expenditures, and goals for people with disabilities differ substantially across age groups in ways that suggest ageism. Expenditures per recipient are substantially higher for younger individuals with disabilities, largely as a result of more effectiv...

This article, therefore, examines how learning disabilities are defined and identified, their prevalence within the institutional population and, perhaps most important, how offender treatment or programming can accommodate the unique needs of offenders with learning disabilities. Defining learning disabilities Learning disabilities can best be described as a group of problems resulting from di...

Learning disabilities are a common problem in the pediatric population. Dyslexia, defined as a specific reading disability, affects 80% of individuals with learning disabilities, and 5 to 17% of the general population. Some individuals with learning disabilities also have difficulty in areas such as memory or mathematical calculations. Because of the complex multifactorial nature of learning di...