aims: intellectual disability is a condition characterised by the inability of a person to undertake normal psychological activities. the purpose of this study was to systematically review the intellectual disability in children and discuss the implications of different environmental and genetic factors, which describe particular categories of intellectual disable cases. information & methods: ...

ïndividuals with factitious disorder fake illnesses to assume a sick role. they simulate, induce, or aggravate illness, often inflicting painful, deforming, or even life-threatening injury on themselves or those under their care. factitious disorders are diagnosed in about one percent of patients who are seen in psychiatric consultation in general hospitals. ône of the features, that are overre...

introduction: although many researches showed that there are several psychiatric comorbidities in people suffering from migraine headache, few studies investigated the relationship between deep psychopathological structures and headache variables. the purpose of the present study was to elucidate the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and three dimensions of headache impact, pain in...

Disabled people and their whänau have poorer outcomes across a wide range of wellbeing living standards measures.1 Yet disability analysis does not appear to be well integrated into government decision making on wellbeing. This article builds framework for understanding in context by using the Treasury’s Living Standards Framework Sophie Mitra’s human development model health. One most importan...

PURPOSE To demonstrate the application of Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY) as an aid in health outcome measures to evaluate the epilepsy disease burden in rural China and to provide Chinese data to achieve a better understanding of disease burden due to epilepsy. METHODS The DALY is the sum of the number of years of survival with disability (Years Lived with Disability, YLD) and the numbe...

In this article we show that persons with communicative disabilities are often involved in storytelling that does not necessarily conform to the conventional expectations of what constitutes a narrative. By analyzing the relationship between story and storytelling event, and the relation between what could be called the primary storyteller and the vicarious storyteller, we show that storyteller...

BACKGROUND Understanding the difficulties and needs of the family carers in taking care of a person with ID can facilitate the development of appropriate intervention programmes and services to strengthen their caring capacity and empower them to continue with their caring roles. This study aims to explore ageing family carers' caregiving experiences and the plans they have to provide care for ...

More Information: This webinar will cover issues concerning International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) education, with the Australian ICF Network. The event will be in conjunction with the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare-Australia's national health and welfare statistics and information agency and also the Australian Collaborating Centre for WHO classifi...

Physicians and their patients rely on disability insurance to provide economic protection against unforeseen illness or injury. This article discusses various types of disability coverage and issues that arise in disability claims both from the perspective of the physician as treater as well as consumer.