We used the disablement process framework to build a model of impairment and functional limitation in RA [ 8].
Consistent with theoretical models of progressive disablement [ 8, 9] the statistical models identified a number of factors (risk, pathological, and impairment) and functional limitations strongly associated with function and disability.
Cultural context plays an important role in the experience of disablement, and disability cannot be considered in isolation from factors such as ethnicity, gender, and religion.
Haga 16 considered this framework when he developed the initial disablement model of achondroplasia.
The conceptual structure of disablement was adapted for OI in a model where active pathology was represented by a structural defect in collagen production or conformation, leading to impairments (skeletal disproportion and joint dysfunction), which, in turn, produce a functional limitation that leads to disability (makes the individual dependent on caregiver assistance) [ 7, 8].
This framework describes disability across a trajectory of a range of types and levels of disablement.
Mr. Gates, midway through a week of meetings in China, South Korea and Japan, said the United States "would welcome, and do welcome, the beginning of disablement of nuclear facilities in the North".
That resonating pair of words "leant" and "outleant" impresses on the eye images of disablement, the laying-out of the dead, and, of course, leanness.
Subjective estimates of disablement in activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living.
Rather, she argues that being classified as having an impairment is an integral part of the social process of disablement.
