Cerebral Palsy, T.B., Epilepsy, deafness, and the physical handicaps of school children, are amongst the subjects dealt with; the present position in regard to them is reviewed and the "gaps' pointed out. Prevention rather than treatment is stressed, and how far we have to travel to attain the objective of a really adequate and comprehensive service which makes provision for both these things, ...

There are 82.96 million disabled people in China, which accounts for 6.34% of the total population, almost one sixth families nationwide or over 200 million people. Along with the economic and social development, China has also harvested a lot in the project of poverty reduction for the disabled people and explored policies and measures of Chinese characteristic to help them. However, we are fa...

Growth in the number of applications and subsequent awards for Social Security disabled-worker benefits marked the period from 1986 through 1993. These increases resulted in the 37 percent rise in the number of disabled-worker beneficiaries, 6 out of 10 of whom had disabilities within three diagnostic groups: circulatory disorders; mental disorders (other than mental retardation); and musculosk...

BACKGROUND Research has shown that women with disabilities face additional challenges in accessing and using healthcare services compared to non-disabled women. However, relatively little is known about the utilisation of cancer screening services for women with disabilities. This study addresses this gap by examining the utilisation of the Papanicolaou test and mammography for disabled women i...

In the view that, the projects Chinese disabled people had participated in Paralympics are less, the number of entries and as well as the experience are also less than others, however, much of our competitors are people of a new type. Facing on the so called “more less than 3, more than1 " problems, this paper uses time series analysis, and then concludes that Chinese cities disabled athletes p...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the article is to investigate the differences in sickness present and non-sickness present in the group of disabled health care professionals. METHODS Data were gathered from all disabled health care professionals suffering from invalidity of category II or III who were identified in the research among all health care professionals at the University Medical Centre Ljublj...

This paper reports the results of a scoping study that reviewed research about child abuse, child protection and disabled children published in academic journals between 1996 and 2009. The review was conducted using a five stage method for scoping studies. Several studies have revealed a strong association between disability and child maltreatment, indicating that disabled children are signific...

The relations between survivors and disability and between the survivors' and disabled people's movements are complex and there is little agreement about them. For example, there was only one mention of survivors in Jane Campbell and Mike Oliver's major examination of disability politics and the only organisation referred to is an organisation for mental health service users (Campbell and Olive...