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Hittade 5 avhandlingar som matchar ovanstående sökkriterier.

1. 1. Which Entitlements and for Whom? The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Ideological Antecedents

   Författare :Anna Bruce; Juridiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ICIDH; the International Classification of Impairments Disabilities and Handicaps; the right to health; human rights law; impairment; disability; CRPD; The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the Social Model of Disability; the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health; ICF; the Minority Group Model of Disability;

   Sammanfattning : The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), adopted by the UN in 2006, represents the coming of age of a human rights approach to disability. In doing so, it provides answers to the questions what ‘disability’ is, who ‘persons with disabilities’ are and what entitlements are legitimate and relevant in relation to ‘disability’. LÄS MER

3. 2. Shoulder and upper extremity impairments, activity limitation and physiotherapeutic exercise in women with rheumatoid arthritis : a biopsychosocial approach

   Författare :Carina Boström; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :arthritis; rheumatoid; arm; pain measurement; motion range; movement; function; muscle skeletal; disability evaluation; human activities; health status indicators; exercise;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis was to evaluate both specially-designed and commonly used instruments for measuring impairments, activity limitation and health-related quality of life (overall Sickness Impact Profile (SIP)). The focus was on shoulder and upper extremity. LÄS MER

4. 3. Assessment of assistive technology : outcomes, costs and quality

   Författare :Ursula Hass; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

   Sammanfattning : Technology assessment aims at providing information about costs and effects, in order to support decision making and resource allocation. The purpose of this thesis is to, through empirical studies on assistive technologies, investigate the contribution of various kinds of outcome measures, and provide knowledge about outcomes, costs and quality of services. LÄS MER

5. 4. Exercise and outcome measures in patients with polymyositis and dermatomyositis

   Författare :Helene Alexanderson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Inflammatory myopathies; exercise; outcome measures; disability;

   Sammanfattning : Polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM) are chronic idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) which are clinically characterized by symmetrical proximal muscle weakness, fatigue, myalgia and extra- muscular involvement. Muscle impairment is the most significant feature of PM and DM with characteristic infiltrates of mononuclear inflammatory cells in muscle biopsies, elevated inflammatory parameters in serum and characteristic EMG changes, which separate these disorders from neurologic disorders and also fibromyalgia. LÄS MER

7. 5. Socioeconomic evaluation of postal and telecommunication services for disabled persons : applications to text telephone and videophone relay services

   Författare :Ulla-Christel Götherström; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Socioeconomic model; costs; post- and telecommunication services; disability; sign language; quality of life; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

   Sammanfattning : Introduction: The Swedish National Post and Telecom Agency provides services in the postal and telecommunication field aimed at several groups of disabled persons in Sweden. The services included in this study were the text telephone relay service and the videophone relay service. LÄS MER