International Day of People with Disabilities 2022

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10, examining the mortality risk for people aged 25-44 years with disability, and shows that the risk increases with different types and severities of disability and is particiularly associated with mental health problems and motor impairment

Recommends ways to maximise potential of autonomous vehicles to improve accessibility for disabled persons.

People with any disabilities accounted for a quarter of total deaths. People with disabilities had higher average ages and poor economic conditions. All disability types presented higher mortality rates and lower life expectancy. The major causes of death differed according to the type of disability.

Several studies of adult-onset multiple sclerosis (AOMS) patients have demonstrated that spinal cord volume loss is associated with disease progression and clinical disability; however, complementary studies of young patients with pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis (POMS) are lacking. In the context of SDG Goal 3, this retrospective study aimed to assess spinal cord volume in POMS patients compared with that in healthy controls.

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10, assessing the effects of genomics, inheritance, and socioeconomic deprivation on neuropsychiatric risk in children with intellectual disabilities. The study shows that children with genomic variants and intellectual disability are at increased risk of neuropsychiatric difficulties.

How adapting math instruction for those with learning disabilities can allow them to increase their understanding of mathematics. Supports SDGs 4 and 10.

Development of a siren identification system, using deep learning, for hearing-impaired people. Supports SDG 10.

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10, assessing the effect of housing modifications of disability outcomes, with a particular focus on the ageing population.

An Article in support of SDG 3, examining the treatment pathway for hip replacements over the life of the patient in terms of risk of revision and re-revisions.

In a 2019 national survey, 3.1% (95% confidence interval, 2.6%-3.5%) of practicing US physicians self-reported a disability, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.2 Although the prevalence of reported disabilities in physicians is less than the general population, physicians may choose to not disclose their disabilities, especially hidden disabilities.

An investigation of the support needed for the visually impaired to be able to age successfully.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of complete decongestive therapy (CDT) in patients with breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL), in regard to volume reduction, functional status and quality of life (QoL). In th context of SDG Goal 3, the study found that phase 1 CDT in a combined manner performed daily for 3 weeks, greatly reduces the volumes as well as improves the disability and QoL, especially when performed earlier.

This Viewpoint supports SDGs 3 and 10 by arguing that greater attention and emphasis should be placed on children with developmental disabilities in early childhood development strategies, which would necessitate funding and investment specifically for this patient population.

Average age at death is younger for intellectual and developmental disabled adults. This disparity is more pronounced among all racial-ethnic minorities. Racial-ethnic inequities are most severe among adults with cerebral palsy.

The COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. The pandemic not only induced a public health crisis, but has led to severe economic, social, and educational crises. Across economies and societies, the distributional consequences of the pandemic have been uneven. Among groups living in vulnerable conditions, the pandemic substantially magnified the inequality gaps, with possible negative implications for these individuals' long-term physical, socioeconomic, and mental wellbeing.

This Article supports SDG 3 by examining the cost-effectiveness of implementing at scale a set of evidence-based hearing care interventions recommended by WHO. The study finds that the implementation would offer a large return of investment, due to the substantial costs to countries posed by hearing impairment.

This Personal View supports SDGs 3 and 13, drawing attention to how the lived experiences of disability can deepen understanding of climate-resilient development, and how marginalisation increases vulnerability. The paper stresses the importance of solidarity in underpinning social choices.

An Article in support of SDG 3, estimating the global burden of tuberculosis, inclusive of post-tuberculosis morbidity and mortality, in view of the increasing evidence of long-term disability and elevated mortality risks in tuberculosis survivors.

This Research Paper supports SDGs 3 and 10 by investigating the contribution of multiple long-term conditions to the widening inequalities in disability-free life expectancy by socioeconomic deprivation.

An Article in support of SDG 3, showing that the age-adjusted prevalence of blindness has reduced over the past three decades, yet due to population growth, progress is not keeping pace with needs and vision impairment remains an urgent and increasingly important public health priority.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by providing different levels and magnitude of explanation for the various behavioral symptoms seen in individuals with ASD, collectively providing a comprehensive picture of this disorder.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by examining the history and evolution of the definition and characterization of autism over the past several decades and the impact of it on how the disorder is perceived by autistic individuals, families, and professionals

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by providing a biopsychosocial approach that is key to optimal outcomes for patients with psychiatric illnesses.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by examining race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, class, age, marital status, political belief, religion, geographic region, mental or physical disability, and historical or current experiences with the dominant culture to fully understand human behavior.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by exploring the quality of online information on neurodevelopmental disorders, eating disorders, psychotic disorders, and mood and anxiety disorders.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the physical and mental health of the elderly.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by presenting early evidence on what it meant to be a frail older individual in the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of three different settings: community, hospitals, and nursing homes. Lessons learned provide opportunities to improve health outcomes, community and health services, and how we want to live as aging societies.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by focusing on the impacts of emergencies, disasters, and the COVID-19 pandemic on people with disabilities and chronic and mental health conditions

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by looking at policies and frameworks for disaster risk reduction to ensure disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction practices across the world

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by exploring the impact of COVID-19 on employment, childcare, food security, and mental health.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by examining the consequences of failing to adequately address long-standing social determinants and structural disparities related to the public's health

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by presenting available evidence of the effects of acute COVID-19 illness on children and young people, the impact on at-risk groups, and access to mental health services and education during the pandemic, as well as discussing the implications and recommendations for research, practice, and policy.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by outlining key aspects of disability studies and considers how this strongly emerging field is intersecting with scholarship and activism across many varieties of neurodivergence

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced inequalities by showing the effectiveness of neural mobilization on pain and disability in individuals with musculoskeletal disorders.

This book chapter advances SDG3 Good Health and Wellbeing and SDG10 Reducing Inequalities by focusing on the physically impaired who are unable to move about or carry out their day-to-day tasks independently in light of a new system with features that ensures a smooth and easy transition to a substantially improved quality of life.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by exploring novel and advanced personalized medicine approaches to tailor depression treatments.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by reviewing the evidence base for treatment of youth with depression, with a focus on management of treatment-resistant depression.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by exploring herbal medicines role in depression to provide alternatives to current psychiatric drugs which may cause many induced side effects.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by examining Pharmacoepigenetics as an emerging field and the relation of epigenetic mechanisms to treatment response to inform treatment selection.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by presenting the design, execution, and test results of the dyslexia health management system; and highlighting the high potential for worldwide deployment using blockchain technology.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by providing diagnostic occlusion and investigative occlusion for better patient outcomes..

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by presenting EEG and machine learning approaches to the classification of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders for the improvement of specificity, reducing over diagnosis and under diagnoses, thereby avoiding undesirable consequences in adulthood.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by discussing how the inclusion of mental health providers with disabilities can improve the quality of patient care, and can add value to medical student and resident education.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by reviewing the data on clinical and epidemiological predictors of antidepressant response, or predictors of treatment-resistant depression and discussing the possible prognostic value of clinical features, like severity, chronicity, subtypes of depression, comorbidities, history of trauma, and epidemiological features like gender, age, sociodemographic status.