introduction: according to change in the approach to the rehabilitation of children with disability, function is an effective characteristic of the quality of life for these children. pediatric evaluation of disability inventory (pedi) was designed to assess the function of 6 months to 7 and half years old children. the aim of this study was to translate the pediatric evaluation of disability i...

Basic knowledge needed by clinicians for treating work incapacity and performing effective impairment and disability evaluations includes an awareness of the distinction between impairment and disability, the regulations of specific disability systems, familiarity with the impairment rating process, and a sensitivity to the social and legal contexts of disability. The health care provider willi...

To examine the current state and social ramifications of disability evaluation in Japan, public data from Annual Reports on Health and Welfare 1998-1999 were investigated. All data were analyzed based on the classification of disabilities and the effects of age-appropriate welfare services, which have been developed through a half-century of legislative efforts to support disability evaluation....

BACKGROUND Decisions on disability pensions are based, among others, on medical reports. The way these medical assessments are performed is largely unclear. The aim of the study was to determine which grounds are used by social insurance physicians (SIPs) in these assessments and to determine if the identification of these grounds can help improve the quality of assessments in social insurance ...

OBJECTIVES We examined the effects of community socioeconomic conditions, air pollution, and the physical environment on elderly health and survival in China. METHODS We analyzed data from a nationally representative sample of 15 973 elderly residents of 866 counties and cities with multilevel logistic regression models in which individuals were nested within each county or city. RESULTS Af...

In this paper, the author contrasts the substantial impact of mental health problems on global disability with the limited attention and resources these problems receive. The author discusses possible reasons for the disparity: Compared to physical disorders, mental health problems are considered less important, perhaps due to lower priority of disorders that primarily cause dysfunction rather ...

The problem of designing objects for people having some kinds of disability represents a challenging subject for designers. The sources of people’s disabilities may vary from accidents, to diverse diseases, or genetically ones. The paper studies the situation when people cannot use both of their limbs stressing on arthritis as the main cause of this fact. In order to give these people the oppor...

-20 orthopaedically disabled hospital patients responded to a self-ideal discrepancy scale and the Eysenck Personaliry Inventory. The severely disabled Ss were more self-accepting and less neurotic than the marginally disabled Ss. A direct relationship obtained between age and a composite measure of maladjustment (r = .42, P < .001), but this was not due simply to the duration of the disabiliti...

Physicians are frequently involved in the assessment of impairment and disability as the treating physician, in consultation, or as an independent medical examiner. The key elements of this assessment include a comprehensive clinical evaluation and appropriate standardized testing to establish the diagnosis, characterize the severity of impairment, and communicate the patient's abilities, restr...

Department of Medicine B, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, affiliated with Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine H, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel Department of Psychiatry, Ness Ziona Mental Health Center, Ness Ziona, Is...