International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2023

The researchers examined the use of footwear that incorporates force-sensing resistor sensors to classify lower limb disorders affecting the knee, hip, and ankle joints. The outcomes of the study reveal promising findings for future gait analysis and injury diagnosis, and the potential of force-sensing resistors (FSRs) and machine learning techniques for improving the assessment of lower limb injuries, and thereby furthering SDG3.

This Article supports SDG 3 by highlighting the importance of not just measuring life expectancy but also disability-free life expectancy as an indicator of population health, and showing that in Hong Kong, a word leader in life expectancy, there has been a trend of increasing disability burden, particularly in women. The authors discuss the public health implications of their findings.

This Article supports SDG 3 by estimating burdens of other musculoskeletal disorders (conditions other than osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, low back pain, and neck pain), which are a source of a large amount of disability globally; they are the sixth leading cause of years lived with disability globally, and the authors note they are an important consideration for policies regarding musculoskeletal health.

This Article supports SDG 3 by estimating the burden of rheumatoid arthritis. Finding include that the rate of years lived with disability due to rheumatoid arthritis increased by 13.8% from 1990 to 2020. The authors note that outcomes including severity of disability can be improved by early diagnosis and access to DMARD therapy.

This Article supports SDG 3 by examining the possible effects of hypertension prevention strategies on future dementia and disability occurence. The results suggest that the decrease in dementia and disability due to these interventions is likely to be offset by an increase in the susceptible poulation due to the increase in life expectancy.

This Article supports SDG 3 by estimating the burden of osteoarthritis, a major cause of adult disability. The study found that osteoarthritis is the seventh leading cause of years lived with disability worldwide among people older than 70 years. Years lived with disability attributable to osteoarthritis are likely to continue to rise, posing a large challenge to health systems, and necessitating increased focus on preventive and treatment measures.

This Article supports SDG 3 by showing that a broad range of interventions for behaviours that challenge are efficacious for people with intellectual disability, but that effect sizes are small

This study supports SDG 3 by examining the incidence of stroke among people with disabilities, a group who are more likely to have risk factors for stroke. The incidence was found to be almost 2.5 times higher than in non-disabled people, and occuring 20 years earlier. Public health measures are urgently needed to address this problem.

Explores the impact and consequences of not being able to make trips because of transport disadvantage. Explicitly does so in relation to SDG goal 11.2.

This Article supports SDG 3 by estimating the burden of low back pain, which continues to be the leading cause of disability worldwide. The study predicts that low back pain prevalence will continue to increase, from 619 million people in 2020 to 843 million in 2050. Two-fifths of the burden are due to modifiable risk factors, and a quarter of years lived with disability are attributable to occupational ergonomic factors.

This Comment supports SDGs 4 and 10 by reviewing the global pledges and resolutions that have been made regarding disabled children (dating back to 1946), and highlighting how the September 2023 global summit on SDGs provides an opportunity to reaffirm global commitments on early childhood development.

To determine parent based perceptions of a SEND cycle training programme, factors which predict intention to cycle more and ongoing barriers to cycling.

This article, which has international appeal, covers disability justice and health and therefore advances the UN SDG goals 3 (good health and wellbeing), 10 (reduced inequalities).

Explores the problems faced by persons with disabilities while using public transport in Lahore, Pakistan, and how these problems influence their choice of mode of transport. Makes recommendations for transport policies and future research.

Review article that examines 66 studies to understand the state of knowledge on the relationship between urban environment and the travel of people with disabilities. Adapts the classic travel demand model to the mobility characteristics of people with disabilities, interprets the existing literature, points out the missing links, and suggests directions of future research.

This Viewpoint supprts SDG 3 by focusing on the health and wellbeing of people with disabilities in Europe and discussing inclusive health sectors, which could aid the protection of the human rights of people with disabilities and the promotion of their health.

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10 by evaluating whether provision of a cash transfer to children and adolescents would improve their access to health and education resources, by removing financial barriers to these resources. The programme was successful in this regard; eg, beneficiaries were twice as likely as non-beneficiaries to use rehabilitation services and attend school.

This paper focuses on raising awareness of disability among Saudi university graduates.

This paper looks into the economic participation for people with a disability in the labour market to better understanding of how job satisfaction influences employment.

This systematic review aims to identify articles that systematically reviewed measures of ADL for children and adolescents aged 7–18 years with DD to evaluate the quality of included articles, and describe the measures and domains identified.

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.

This Comment supports SDGs 3 and 10 by explaining how people with disabilities are more likely to suffer adverse health effects from climate change, for a variety of reasons, and emphasising that people with disabilities should be considered, and included in planning of, climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts.

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 study explores the styles and strategies of coping with stress among parents of children with developmental disabilities compared to parents of children with typical development. In stressful situations connected with rearing a child, parents of children with developmental disabilities do not use as dominant strategies connected with seeking emotional support and religion, which occur in the parents of typical development children.

The present study aimed to investigate the attitude and empathy of youth towards physically disabled persons.

The authors discuss the complexities of diversity disclosure within academia.

The aim of this study was to compare the RAN pattern and skills of children with ID and low reading skills to the ones of TD children with matched reading skills.

This study looks to identify meaningful and accessible segments of the young adults with a physical disability population and to develop further understanding of how these segments can be targeted to increase their independence in their travel to work.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by reviewing the current therapies for neurological disorders and their limitations.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by highlighting the types of human podiatry disabilities and correction methods using traditional, 3DP technology and its challenges.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by systematically appraising the common applications of deep learning approaches and the utilization of big public health data to detect the risks of blindness within communities.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing a framework for understanding neurodevelopment, explore the detection and diagnosis of developmental disabilities, describe techniques for investigation of the mechanisms of these disorders, and present principles of management.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by highlighting the differences between low- and high-functioning ASD and age dependence of ERP findings in ASD, ADHD, and dyslexia; the effects of language impairment; and the role of ERPs in diagnosing between ASD and ADHD.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced inequalities by exploring the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) caused by neurological disorders and the effect of that burden on society.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by exploring the link between diet and gut microbiota in multiple sclerosis.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by summarizing the commonly used instruments for the assessment of patient’s pain, quality of life, physical limitations, and psychological impact.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by stressing the importance of human service staff treating adults with severe disabilities with dignity.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by discussing the importance of promoting desired lifestyles among adults with severe autism and intellectual disabilities, and how the operations of many adult service agencies fail to promote individually desired lifestyles.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by discussing the application of cognitive behavior therapy, an evidence-based psychological approach in adolescents suffering from Asperger syndrome with comorbid depressive disorder.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing an overview of low vision as well as defining concepts such as low vision, disorder, impairment, activity limitation, or participation restriction.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing easy access to the declarations and conventions of the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), and other international organizations and institutions.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing an overview of the paralympics as an encouraging success story that has fundamentally changed one of the many aspects of disabled people’s lives.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by treating access and inclusion as human rights issue and highlighting information to providers about caring for athletes with physical disabilities.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing a comprehensive review of specific considerations for the promotion of sports participation in youth athletes with intellectual disabilities.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by exploring the intersections between diagnosis, stigma and labelling along with the silencing of the child's voice.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing an in-depth review of how the COVID-19 pandemic, and subsequent physical distancing measures, impacted people with NDDs and their family members.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by exploring how experiential knowledge can complement professional and scientific knowledge and underscoring the benefits of incorporating experiential knowledge within the development of evidence-based care and support for people with intellectual disabilities.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by identifying barriers for individuals with ID, their impact on long-term outcomes, and strategies that academics can use to foster positive identity development for this population.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by discussing the physical deficits, which are accompanied in predictable frequencies by Intellectual Disability and epilepsy, that result from brain injury sustained in utero, during birth, and infancy.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing coverage of neural prosthetics (NPs) to restore lost limb function due to neural damage.

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 content links with Goal 3: Good health and well-being and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing coverage of the clinical syndrome of a primary progressive aphasia (PPA), the demographics of this rare neurodegenerative disease, defining clinical and neuroanatomic characteristics of each PPA variant, disease progression, and behavioral features.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by presenting ASD as a complex, multisystem neurodevelopmental condition with origins in prenatal life.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by reviewing the common risk and protective factors for developmental disorders, approaches to screening, and identification of developmental disabilities in primary health care settings.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by raising the general and ethical issues around access to rehabilitation robot technologies and discusses them in the context of inclusivity—a term that encompasses affordability and other common issues that may justify limiting or increasing use in low-resource settings in HICs and LMICs.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing evidence that environmental factors influence individual risk and/or severity of autism spectrum disorders.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing specific aspects of agency supports and services in accordance with identified preferences of adults with severe disabilities.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by discussing the application of cognitive behavior therapy, an evidence-based psychological approach in adolescents suffering from Asperger syndrome with comorbid depressive disorder.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by discussing the Autism Partnership Method which is a successful method in working with patients diagnosed with autism.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by introducing sexuality education curriculum for learners of all ages with autism.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by outlining how to use the book to provide effective teaching in sexuality education with an emphasis on individualization for specific learners.

An obituary to remember Judy Heumann.

An investigation, linking particularly well to SDGs 10 and 5 focusing on equality, which shows how researchers can actively engage with equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in their work, and how EDI considerations must remain an ongoing effort. The authors, working in the field of responsible research and innovation (RRI), intentionally employed EDI in their project recruitment, and reflect here on the adjustments they made as a result. The recruitment of persons with disabilities led to some particularly interesting and new insights in this study looking at trustworthiness in the design of autonomous systems with evolving functionality.

The researchers examined the use of footwear that incorporates force-sensing resistor sensors to classify lower limb disorders affecting the knee, hip, and ankle joints. The outcomes of the study reveal promising findings for future gait analysis and injury diagnosis, and the potential of force-sensing resistors (FSRs) and machine learning techniques for improving the assessment of lower limb injuries, and thereby furthering SDG3.

This study explores the styles and strategies of coping with stress among parents of children with developmental disabilities compared to parents of children with typical development. In stressful situations connected with rearing a child, parents of children with developmental disabilities do not use as dominant strategies connected with seeking emotional support and religion, which occur in the parents of typical development children.