Purpose: To present the strategies used and effects of early physiotherapy intervention using telehealth on a Down syndrome infant. Materials methods: An infant diagnosed with performed intervention. Telehealth was synchronously according to biopsychosocial model The assessments were carried out International Classification Functioning, Disability Health checklist. Alberta Infant Motor Scale Br...

measures of population health (SMPH) provide a " common metric " for a wide range of health evaluations such as effectiveness of interventions or efficiency of health systems (WHO 1996). This metric adds " disability " (i.e. non-fatal health outcomes) to mortality, and thus results in a more realistic measure than what is obtained by measuring mortality alone (Murray and Lopez 1997). In the cou...

background: due to lack of detailed standards of sexual maturity in individuals with intellectual, sensory and motor disability in iran and the importance of timing of onset of puberty in these individuals, a study is necessary. by knowing the onset of puberty, physiologic and behavioral changes can be traced in these people, as well as the potential impact of the puberty on the underlying dise...

abstract background parental blood variables are one of the most important medical-biological causes of intellectual and physical-movement disabilities. the purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between parents’ blood variables (abo and rh blood type) and their relationship with frequency of intellectual and physical-movement disabilities in isfahan province. materials and meth...

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background: despite significant reduction in global disease prevalence, leprosy still has a high rate of disability while its determinants are unfair and many of them are amendable. the objective of this study was to measure inequality of disability in leprosy in iran. methods: this was a cross‑sectional study (2006‑2007) on all living people affected by leprosy registered in w. azerbaijan prov...