The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) is a systematic study that compares the magnitude of health losses to various diseases and injuries worldwide. Disability weights are crucial for quantifying health loss associated with ...
Jul 10, 2023
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The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was designed to empower and support people with disability. But ten years into the scheme, many participants are finding their encounters with the NDIS dehumanizing and burdensome.
Jul 10, 2023
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Autistic individuals often rely on Medicaid for insurance, but the transition to adulthood can, and often does, impact their enrollment status. In continuing to examine how autistic individuals use Medicaid, recent research ...
Jun 8, 2023
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A new study shows that among women with congenital heart defects (CHD), reproductive counseling, concerns, and experiences differ by disability status. The study, which focused on contraceptive and pregnancy counseling, and ...
Jun 7, 2023
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Researchers looking to better understand patient experiences are turning to patient-guided tours (PGT) of health facilities, an approach drawn from the experience-based design literature. However, little research has assessed ...
May 23, 2023
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The prevalence of persons with disabilities varies across occupation groups, with the highest prevalence rates among workers in food preparation and serving-related and personal care and service groups, according to research ...
May 19, 2023
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Chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) were the third leading cause of death globally, accounting for 4.0 million deaths in 2019, according to a study published online April 25 in eClinicalMedicine.
May 18, 2023
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital have together with health economists at Linköping University analyzed costs for various methods to diagnose genetic causes of intellectual disability. ...
May 4, 2023
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New research presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (Copenhagen, April 15–18) and published in The Lancet Public Health shows that the impact of COVID-19 on mortality in ...
Apr 17, 2023
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The day Alyssa told her doctor she was pregnant, the doctor looked at her wheelchair and asked if she had come to terminate the pregnancy. Alyssa had been trying to get pregnant for a year.
Apr 6, 2023
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