"For some of the 11.4 million uninsured Americans with serious chronic conditions, access to care seems to be unobtainable; many may face early disability and death as a result," the study's authors said.
Enlightened by these parallels with their own history, some early disability studies scholars rejected medical practices directed at altering themselves.
Just as biological sex, and the division of humans into two sexes, initially were taken as givens in feminist theory, so early disability studies scholars proposed to treat impairments such as being unable to hear, see, walk, talk, or execute cognitive activities as biological givens, and disabilities as social interpretations of impairments.
Self-rated health can predict later morbidity, mortality, use of health services and early disability [ 47].
Low parental education, parental disability and unstable marital unions predict early disability pensions and premature expulsion out gainful employment.
Self-rated health is a health measure that can predict later morbidity, mortality, health service use and early disability.
We classified early disability onset as birth through age 21 years based on federal laws designating developmental disability services for individuals aged 0 21 years.
In terms of attributable risks, education is by far the most important determinant, explaining 57% of the risk of early disability.
An early disability pension is a social death sentence, crippling the individual by removing incentives to seek work and declaring him or her definitively incurable.
show, by using linked administrative databases, that causes of early disability in young adulthood are rooted in childhood and in parental disadvantage.
