Disabled Persons - Statistics & numerical data
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Medicare managed care enrollment by disability-eligible and age-eligible veterans.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To assess factors associated with enrollment in a Medicare advantage (MA) plan versus Medicare fee-for-service plan in 2000-2004 by Medicare-eligible veterans. We also assessed whether these factors differed between disability-eligible ... Read more...

Prevalence of Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy among males aged 5-24 years - four states, 2007.

14 Oct 2009 Muscular dystrophies are a group of genetic diseases characterized by progressive skeletal muscle weakness and muscle cell death with replacement of muscle cells by fibrosis and fat. The most common muscular dystrophy in children is Duchenne ... Read more...

Prognosis for patients with chronic low back pain: inception cohort study.

4 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVES: To describe the course of chronic low back pain in an inception cohort and to identify prognostic markers at the onset of chronicity. DESIGN: Inception cohort study with one year follow-up. SETTING: Primary care clinics in Sydney, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Disabled Persons - Statistics & numerical data'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Medicare managed care enrollment by disability-eligible and age-eligible veterans. 30 Oct 2009
• Prevalence of Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy among males aged 5-24 years - four states, 2007. 14 Oct 2009
• Prognosis for patients with chronic low back pain: inception cohort study. 4 Oct 2009
• Ageing populations: the challenges ahead. Oct 2009
• Climate change is not the biggest global health threat. 17 Sep 2009
• [Future prognosis. Germany will be this sick in 40 years] Sep 2009
• Disaster preparedness of households with special needs in southeastern Pennsylvania. 30 Aug 2009
• Predictors of new onset depression in medically ill, disabled older adults at 1 year follow-up. 30 Aug 2009
• Most very low birth weight subjects do well as adults. 30 Aug 2009
• Health care expenditures of living with a disability: total expenditures, out-of-pocket expenses, and burden, 1996 to 2004. 30 Aug 2009
• Violence and injuries in South Africa: prioritising an agenda for prevention. 22 Aug 2009
• Probable posttraumatic stress disorder and disability in Cambodia: associations with perceived justice, desire for revenge, and attitudes toward the Khmer Rouge trials. 3 Aug 2009
• Change in disability-free life expectancy for Americans 70-years-old and older. 30 Jul 2009
• Disability and pain management methods of Taiwanese arthritic older patients. 30 Jul 2009
• Adverse events and potentially preventable deaths in Dutch hospitals: results of a retrospective patient record review study. 30 Jul 2009
• Urban built environments and trajectories of mobility disability: findings from a national sample of community-dwelling American adults (1986-2001). 26 Jul 2009
• Association of a cancer diagnosis with vulnerability and frailty in older Medicare beneficiaries. 26 Jul 2009
• Convergence and divergence: differences in disability prevalence estimates in the United States and Canada based on four health survey instruments. 29 Jun 2009
• An overview of meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia. 29 Jun 2009
• Impact of additional disabilities on adaptive behavior and support profiles for people with intellectual disabilities. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Disabled Persons'

Definition: Persons with physical or mental disabilities that affect or limit their activities of daily living and that may require special accommodations.

Descriptor UI: D006233

Alternative terms: Disabled Persons; Disabled Person; Person, Disabled; Persons, Disabled; Handicapped; People with Disabilities; Disabilities, People with; People with Disability; Persons with Disabilities; Disabilities, Persons with; Disability, Persons with; Persons with Disability; Physically Handicapped; Handicapped, Physically; Physically Disabled; Disabled, Physically; Physically Challenged;

Related Mesh Headings: Dental Care for Disabled; Education, Special; Mainstreaming (Education); Rehabilitation; Self-Help Devices; Employment, Supported; Early Intervention (Education);

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data; rehabilitation;

Tree Number: M01.150;

History Note: 98(63)

Technical Notes: as GEN or unspecified includes both physical & mental disability; prefer specifics (VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; MENTALLY DISABLED PERSONS) emotionally disabled = MENTAL DISORDERS or specific; /educ permitted but is probably EDUCATION, SPECIAL or MAINSTREAMING (EDUCATION); /rehabil permitted; DF: DISABLED