International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2024

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The annual observance of the International Day of Disabled Persons was proclaimed in 1992, by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 47/3. The observance of the Day aims to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. It also seeks to increase awareness of gains to be derived from the integration of persons with disabilities in every aspect of political, social, economic and cultural life.

Table of contents

Towards an agenda of action and research for making health systems responsive to the needs of people with disabilities
Long-term air pollution exposure and incident physical disability in older US adults: a cohort study
Assessing the impact of health-care access on the severity of low back pain by country: a case study within the GBD framework
Ear disease, hearing loss, and cognitive outcomes in high school children who were previous participants in a randomized placebo controlled trial of an 11 valent conjugate pneumococcal vaccine administered in infancy
The cost-effectiveness of a co-managed care model for elderly hip fracture patients in China: a modelling study
Specialist physiotherapy for functional motor disorder in England and Scotland (Physio4FMD): a pragmatic, multicentre, phase 3 randomised controlled trial
The linguistic and metalinguistic abilities of monolingual and bilingual speakers with Prader–Willi syndrome
The association between disability and all-cause mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Situated action, double dialogicality and the sociogenesis of categorizing in institutional practices: Diversity in schooling from vicious children to neuropsychiatric diagnoses
Association between heat and hospital admissions in people with disabilities in South Korea: a nationwide, case-crossover study
Advancing disability-inclusive climate research and action, climate justice, and climate-resilient development
Intellectual and developmental disabilities—an under-recognised driver of cancer mortality
Access to general health care among people with disabilities in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review of quantitative research
A preoperative package of care for osteoarthritis, consisting of weight loss, orthotics, rehabilitation, and topical and oral analgesia (OPPORTUNITY): a two-centre, open-label, randomised controlled feasibility trial
Priorities for hearing loss prevention and estimates of global cause-specific burdens of hearing loss: a systematic rapid review
Association between hearing aid use and mortality in adults with hearing loss in the USA: a mortality follow-up study of a cross-sectional cohort
Do children with disabilities have the same opportunities to play as children without disabilities? Evidence from the multiple indicator cluster surveys in 38 low and middle-income countries
Anti-ableist oncology care: ensuring equity for people with physical disabilities
Global, regional, and national burden of spinal cord injury, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
Stuttering experience of people in China: A cross-cultural perspective
How high school students used speech-to-text as a composition tool
Prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics of US community-dwelling older adults with communication disabilities, using the national health and aging trends survey
Association between disability status and health care utilisation for common childhood illnesses in 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional study in the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey
Peer socialization in an oral preschool classroom
Food insecurity in households with persons with disabilities in a situation of extreme vulnerability in Brazil: A secondary cross-sectional analysis
Leprosy identified in Sumba Island, eastern Indonesia: elimination targets under threat
Empowering lymphatic filariasis affected individuals in India: acknowledging disability status and ensuring justice
Establishing a novel partnership model to deploy health services for children with autism in a low-resource setting – experience from Sri Lanka
Effect of oral health on functional disability and mortality in older adults in Japan: a cohort study
A standardised practice of language and understanding: When deaf parents and their babies meet paediatric nurses in Norwegian health centres for routine postnatal consultations
Effects of disability on adverse health outcomes and anthropometric deficits among under-five children in South Asian countries: evidence from multiple indicator cluster surveys - The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia
Cancer treatment and decision making in individuals with intellectual disabilities: a scoping literature review
Cancer detection, diagnosis, and treatment for adults with disabilities
Using transcranial direct current stimulation to improve outcomes and reduce hip osteoarthritis burden (the STIM HIPS study): A protocol for a randomised, triple blind controlled trial

Towards an agenda of action and research for making health systems responsive to the needs of people with disabilities

Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, Volume 52, November 2024

This Viewpoint supports SDG 3 by highlighting the pervasive issues within health systems rooted in ableism and proposes an agenda to tackle ableism, aiming to make health systems responsive to the needs of people with disabilities.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing, Global

Long-term air pollution exposure and incident physical disability in older US adults: a cohort study

Elsevier,

The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Volume 5, October 2024

This Article supports SDG 3 by evaluating the association between air pollutants and physical disability in older adults.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing, North America

Assessing the impact of health-care access on the severity of low back pain by country: a case study within the GBD framework

Elsevier,

The Lancet Rheumatology, Volume 6, September 2024

This Article supports SDG 3 by comprehensively estimating the burden of low back pain by considering the effects of health-care interventions on health state severity distribution; the authors show that the burden of low back pain in low-income and middle-income countries has been underestimated in GBD, but also that this higher burden is amenable to improved access to treatment.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and wellbeing, Global

Ear disease, hearing loss, and cognitive outcomes in high school children who were previous participants in a randomized placebo controlled trial of an 11 valent conjugate pneumococcal vaccine administered in infancy

Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, Volume 49, August 2024

This Article supports SDG 3 by presenting strong evidence of negative effects of ear disease and/or hearing loss on all measured cognitive domains in a cohort of children enrolled in a randomized placebo-controlled trial of an 11-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine conducted between 2000 and 2004 in Bohol, Philippines.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing, Asia

The cost-effectiveness of a co-managed care model for elderly hip fracture patients in China: a modelling study

Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, Volume 49, August 2024

This Article supports SDG 3 by demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of a multi-center multidisciplinary co-managed care model for hip fracture patients in China.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing, Asia

Specialist physiotherapy for functional motor disorder in England and Scotland (Physio4FMD): a pragmatic, multicentre, phase 3 randomised controlled trial

Elsevier,

The Lancet Neurology, Volume 23, July 2024

This Article supports SDG 3 by assessing the effectiveness of specialist physiotherapy for functional motor disorder and finding that future research should refine interventions for this population and develop evidence-based methods to guide treatment.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and population, Europe

The linguistic and metalinguistic abilities of monolingual and bilingual speakers with Prader–Willi syndrome

Elsevier,

Lingua, Volume 304, June 2024

This study analyses the linguistic and metalinguistic abilities of individuals with Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS).
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Education; Health and wellbeing, Europe

The association between disability and all-cause mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Elsevier,

The Lancet Global Health, Volume 12, May 2024

This Article supports SDG 3 by highlighting that people with disabilities have a two-fold higher mortality rate than people without disabilities in LMICs; a better understanding of this relationship is needed to inform public health planning, policy making, and the allocation of health-care resources to promote healthy longevity for all populations worldwide.
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SDG:

Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and wellbeing, Global

Situated action, double dialogicality and the sociogenesis of categorizing in institutional practices: Diversity in schooling from vicious children to neuropsychiatric diagnoses

Elsevier,

Language Sciences, Volume 103, May 2024

This research highlights how how diversity is, and has been, defined, explained and enacted in the context of schooling.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 4: Quality education

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Health and wellbeing; Education, Europe

Association between heat and hospital admissions in people with disabilities in South Korea: a nationwide, case-crossover study

Elsevier,

The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 8, April 2024

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 13 by estimating the association between environmental heat exposure and emergency department admissions for people with disabilities, compared with people without disabilities
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 13: Climate action
Asia

Advancing disability-inclusive climate research and action, climate justice, and climate-resilient development

Elsevier,

The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 8, April 2024

This Personal View supports SDGs 3 and 13 by presenting research recommendations to advance disability-inclusive climate research and responses .
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 13: Climate action

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Health and population, Global

Intellectual and developmental disabilities—an under-recognised driver of cancer mortality

Elsevier,

The Lancet Oncology, Volume 25, April 2024

This Editorial highlights disparities and inequalities in access to cancer screening and treatment (and consequently worse survival outcomes) in people with physical and intellectual disabilities.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Global

Access to general health care among people with disabilities in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review of quantitative research

Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 32, April 2024

This Review supports SDG 3 by showing that people with disabilities in Latin America and the Carribean face inequities with regard to health-care access, including some evidence showing worse affordability and quality of care. Addressing data gaps will be important to more fully assess health equity among people with and without disabilities in this region.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and wellbeing, South America

A preoperative package of care for osteoarthritis, consisting of weight loss, orthotics, rehabilitation, and topical and oral analgesia (OPPORTUNITY): a two-centre, open-label, randomised controlled feasibility trial

Elsevier,

The Lancet Rheumatology, Volume 6, April 2024

This Article supports SDG 3 by demonstrating that delivery of a complex, non-operative package of care to individuals with severe osteoarthritis and multiple long-term conditions waiting for knee replacement surgery is possible.
Read more

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Health and wellbeing, Europe

Priorities for hearing loss prevention and estimates of global cause-specific burdens of hearing loss: a systematic rapid review

Elsevier,

The Lancet Global Health, Volume 12, February 2024

This Article supports SDG 3 by estimating the global caseload of hearing loss due to certain preventable, disease-based causes of hearing loss; this study was conducted in conjunction with the Lancet Commission on Hearing Loss, with the aim of providing data that could inform policy decisions on how best to allocate resources.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and wellbeing, Global

Association between hearing aid use and mortality in adults with hearing loss in the USA: a mortality follow-up study of a cross-sectional cohort

Elsevier,

The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Volume 5, January 2024

This Article supports SDG 3 by examining whether rehabilitation with hearing aid use in people with hearing loss is associated with lower mortality.
Read more

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being
North America

Do children with disabilities have the same opportunities to play as children without disabilities? Evidence from the multiple indicator cluster surveys in 38 low and middle-income countries

Elsevier,

eClinicalMedicine, Volume 67, January 2024

This Article supports SDG 3 by showing that children with disabilities have fewer opportunities for play compared with children without disabilities (around 9% less), which is important because play is important for child development. Strategies to overcome barriers to participation in play are needed.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and wellbeing, Global

Anti-ableist oncology care: ensuring equity for people with physical disabilities

Elsevier,

The Lancet Oncology, Volume 24, November 2023

This Comment discusses the issue of ableism in oncology care and how this must be addressed.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Global

Global, regional, and national burden of spinal cord injury, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Elsevier,

The Lancet Neurology, Volume 22, November 2023

This Article supports SDG 3 by reporting the global incidence and years of life lived with disability for spinal cord injury from 1990 to 2019.
Read more

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and wellbeing, Global

Stuttering experience of people in China: A cross-cultural perspective

Elsevier,

Journal of Fluency Disorders, Volume 77, September 2023

This study uses the Simplified Chinese version of the Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering for Adults (OASES-A-SC) to examine the stuttering experience of people in China and determine if there are differences between the data collected in China and other countries.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and wellbeing, Asia

How high school students used speech-to-text as a composition tool

Elsevier,

Computers and Composition, Volume 68, June 2023

Speech to text (STT) technology automatically transcribes users’ speech to a computer screen. Research indicates that STT shows promise as an alternative mode of composition, supporting students in making fewer errors, writing more, and writing better. Much of this research takes place in elementary and middle schools, often focusing on students with identified learning disabilities.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and population; Technology, North America

Prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics of US community-dwelling older adults with communication disabilities, using the national health and aging trends survey

Elsevier,

Journal of Communication Disorders, Volume 102, 1 March 2023

This study seeks to describe the prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics of community-dwelling older adults experiencing difficulties with understanding others or being understand when communicating in their usual language.
Read more

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing, North America

Association between disability status and health care utilisation for common childhood illnesses in 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional study in the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey

Elsevier,

eClinicalMedicine, Volume 57, March 2023

This Article supports SDG 3 by examining inequities of care between disabled and non-disabled children in Africa, focusing on common childhood illnesses. Absolute differences were small, although higher odds of some illnesses were observed in disabled children. Children with disabilities should be considered in efforts to address social determinants of health.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and wellbeing, Africa

Peer socialization in an oral preschool classroom

Elsevier,

Language and Communication, Volume 89, March 2023

This study shows the communicative practices that facilitate peer socialization processes in an oral classroom for deaf or hard-of-hearing preschoolers.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and population; Education, North America

Food insecurity in households with persons with disabilities in a situation of extreme vulnerability in Brazil: A secondary cross-sectional analysis

Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 18, February 2023

This Article supports SDG 3 by revealing high levels of household food insecurity among people with disabilities in Brazil. The Continuous Cash Benefit, a social security payment made to people with disabilities, was noted to be an important contributor to food security in this population.
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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and wellbeing, South America

Leprosy identified in Sumba Island, eastern Indonesia: elimination targets under threat

Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, Volume 26, July 2024

This paper calls for structural investment in leprosy elimination programmes for underserved areas where there is high risk of re-emergence of disease due to lack of resources.
Read more

SDG:

Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Asia

Empowering lymphatic filariasis affected individuals in India: acknowledging disability status and ensuring justice

Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, Volume 25, June 2024

India alone accounts for around 40% of burden of LF that is a major cause of disability. The authors in this paper propose a few strategies that can assist in creating a robust framework ensuring that the individuals with LF-related disabilities can utilize the provisions made under various schemes, fostering inclusivity and thereby paving the way for improved quality of life
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SDG:

Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Asia

Establishing a novel partnership model to deploy health services for children with autism in a low-resource setting – experience from Sri Lanka

Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, Volume 17, October 2023

This paper demonstrates incorporating state institutions, local and international charity organisations, and volunteers, to devise a bespoke approach to care provision using the available resources for people living with autism is a conflict ridden area.
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SDG:

Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Asia

Effect of oral health on functional disability and mortality in older adults in Japan: a cohort study

Elsevier,

The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Volume 5, Issue 11, November 2024

This Article supports SDG 3 by assessing the associations between oral health and functional disability and mortality in older adults.

Read more

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Access to Health Care, Asia

A standardised practice of language and understanding: When deaf parents and their babies meet paediatric nurses in Norwegian health centres for routine postnatal consultations

Elsevier,

Language and Health, Volume 2, Issue 2, December 2024,

This study provides insight into the perspectives on languages and modalities that emerge when (hearing) health professionals meet deaf parents with their babies in health centres, even with a sign language interpreter present.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Access to Health Care, Europe

Effects of disability on adverse health outcomes and anthropometric deficits among under-five children in South Asian countries: evidence from multiple indicator cluster surveys - The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia

Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health- Southeast Asia, Volume 25, June 2024

This study findings emphasizes the need for community-level awareness programs to improve anthropometric well-being and healthcare of the children with disability.contributing to the global disability discourse, the study underscores the significance of context-specific investigations for impactful interventions.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Access to Health Care, Global

Cancer treatment and decision making in individuals with intellectual disabilities: a scoping literature review

Elsevier,

The Lancet Oncology, Volume 23, Issue 4, April 2022, Pages e174-e183

This Series of 2 papers in The Lancet Oncology addresses the urgent need to pay specific attention to the challenges and disparities faced by people with disabilities suffering from cancer. The authors highlight the need to improve the effectiveness and timeliness of cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes to provide more equitable cancer prevention and care.

Read more

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Access to Health Care, Global

Cancer detection, diagnosis, and treatment for adults with disabilities

Elsevier,

The Lancet Oncology, Volume 23, Issue 4, April 2022, Pages e164-e173

This Series of 2 papers in The Lancet Oncology addresses the urgent need to pay specific attention to the challenges and disparities faced by people with disabilities suffering from cancer. The authors highlight the need to improve the effectiveness and timeliness of cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes to provide more equitable cancer prevention and care.

Read more

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Access to Health Care, Global

Using transcranial direct current stimulation to improve outcomes and reduce hip osteoarthritis burden (the STIM HIPS study): A protocol for a randomised, triple blind controlled trial

Elsevier,

JSAMS Plus, Volume 3, June 2024

The primary objective of this randomised controlled trial is to quantify the effect of tDCS and exercise on pain, disability and quality of life in people with hip OA. Our secondary objectives include: 1) quantifying the influence of motor cortex excitability and conditioned pain modulation on treatment effects, and 2) quantifying the economic cost/benefit of tDCS for improving health-related quality of life in people with hip OA.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Access to Health Care, Global
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