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Measuring Health: A guide to rating scales and questionnaires

Ian McDowell

Print publication date: 2006

Print ISBN-13: 9780195165678

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195165678.001.0001

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Physical Disability and Handicap

Physical Disability and Handicap

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(p.55) 3 Physical Disability and Handicap
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Measuring Health
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Ian McDowell

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195165678.003.0003

There are many scales to measure physical disability and functional capacity. These range from measures of bodily impairment, to measures of ability to perform basic daily tasks, up to measures of handicap, or the social disadvantage that results indirectly from a health problem. This chapter reviews scales of each type.

Keywords:   physical disability, functional capacity, bodily impairment, daily tasks, handicap, scales

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