Abstract Introduction: Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) is the strategy focuses to inhancing quality of life for disabled people. This strategy plan to consider requirements of the disabled people in all countries. Objective: The goal of this study is to compare capabilities of disabled people before and after implementation of CBR program. Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sect...

Objective: The main purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence and socio-economic correlates of disabilities in Iran. Materials & Methods: Secondary analysis of aggregate and micro data (in individual and household level) from the Iranian 2006 census is used. Micro-data collection contains representative sample including 19,848 disabled people and 1,235,445 non-disabled people i...

Medical assisted suicide is a quarrelsome debate among lawyers, criminologists, protective movements advocating the disabled persons and the disabled themselves at the part of vulnerable population. In all these disputes, the centre of gravity is around the right of disabled person to death. Do the disabled themselves select such a right and apply it? Is it a mere right in itself? That is, can ...

Physically handicapped people, due to their disability, are naturally unable to perform some of their devotional duties. In religious teachings, based on the rule of negation of hardship and the rule of burdensome duty, the religious duties of physically-disabled individuals are legislated in proportion to the physical ability. Awareness of the disabled about this matter provides the ground for...

Background and Aim: The disabled people are a part of our society (1%) and a disabled will face incorrect behaviors from childhood that is caused by an incomplete understanding of the society, but family can play a constructive role to increase the disabled abilities.This study was conducted to determine the views of deaf, blind and physical motor handicaps and their families regarding disabili...

Background and Aims: Disabled individuals are involved with several oral health problems. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and perspective of dentists towards oral health promotion in disabled individuals. Materials and Methods: Dentists participating in the fifty-fourth International Congress of Iranian Dental Association in 1392 in Tehran were invited. A valid and reliable...