The aim of the study was to examine the validity of the MIDAS score, and the five items comprising the score, compared to data from a 90 day daily diary used, in part, to record acute disability from headache.
This is a conservative estimate that will under-estimate the benefits of ORS-Z by leaving out the years of life lost due to acute disability from diarrhea.
Thus, although acute disability was now 'on the map' and an identified priority within the response, only some forms of disability were considered a priority, leading to a situation where individuals with certain conditions had access to specialized services and support, while others did not.
Yet, the international humanitarian worker who described acute disability as being on the map following the earthquake went on to suggest that the attention that was given to disability was in fact quite narrow, being primarily focused on amputees and individuals who had sustained spinal cord injuries.
An experienced humanitarian worker described that this situation was distinctive compared to other situations of crisis: 'It was the very first time … I think it was everyone's agenda to attend to people who were injured … So acute disability was really on the map'.
Patients with NTDs are at risk of psychosocial problems and have acute, lifelong disabilities, which require a lifetime of medical care [ 19, 55].
This state is associated with progression of chronic illnesses like atherosclerosis and dementia, and an increased risk of acute illness, disability and death in older adults.
However, it is not clear if their treatment impacted headache frequency, which is our primary measure and the primary outcome recommended by the most recent IHS clinical trial guidelines [65], or other outcome measures such as those that we included, i.e., use of acute medications, disability burden and mood.
For patients that survive the acute phase, disability after stroke and place of residence before stroke – people living single most likely do not to have a partner and therefore no informal caregivers – are important determinants of costs as these factors have great influence on patients' stroke careers.
Securing or keeping employment can be impeded due to chronic pain, physical disabilities, acute pain episodes, or other complications that can result in hospitalization [ 60], and rates of unemployment are high for adults living with SCD, although this may be affected by other demographic and psychosocial factors [ 61].
