Understanding and measuring disability is essential for improving quality of life in both clinical and public health domains. Disability assessment instruments, such as the World Health Organization ...

Disability status in Latvia only partially fulfills its intended purpose, while the support system is fragmented and unequal.

After series of training conducted in August-September, 2020 the UNDP in Uzbekistan in the frame of the UN Joint Programme on Social Protection is initiating a process on piloting application of ...

1 Care Ethics, Disability Studies in Nederland, University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, Netherlands 2 Gender and Diversity, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands With the increased ...

In the process of assessing disabilities, people in Armenia face many problems — from discrimination to outright corruption. The NGO “Agenda for the Protection of the Rights of People with ...

Specialist practitioners in disability assessment are referred to as disability analysts, and they may come from a variety of healthcare disciplines. The disability analyst is concerned with advising ...

Background In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had their eligibility reassessed using a new functional checklist—the Work ...

The UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa supported the National Association of Societies for the Care of the Handicapped (NASCOH) in partnership with the Zimbabwe National Association for Mental ...