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Links across disabilities: unveiling associations between functional domains.

J DalalS MitraA JamesM Rivas Velarde
Published in: BMC public health (2024)
There are consistent positive associations in the experience of functional difficulties in various domains in the six countries under study. Such correlations may reflect barriers to social services including healthcare services and resources (e.g. assistive devices) that may lead to an avoidable deterioration of functioning across domains. Further research is needed on the trajectories of functional difficulties and on structural barriers that people with functional difficulties may experience in their communities and in healthcare settings in particular. This is important as some functional difficulties may be preventable.
Keyphrases
  • healthcare
  • mental health
  • depressive symptoms
  • emergency department
  • health information
  • affordable care act