Restoration of Population Disability Trajectory During Hundreds of Years — China, 1896–2006

What is already known about this topic? A previous study found that the size of population with disability was 52.7 million and 84.6 million in 1987 and 2006, with the weighted disability rate of 4.9% and 6.5%, respectively. What is added by this report? This study restored the prevalence of disabil...

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Autores principales: Guo, Chao, Zheng, Xiaoying
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Editorial Office of CCDCW, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention 2021
Materias:
Preplanned Studies
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8393110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34594915
http://dx.doi.org/10.46234/ccdcw2021.121
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Sumario:What is already known about this topic? A previous study found that the size of population with disability was 52.7 million and 84.6 million in 1987 and 2006, with the weighted disability rate of 4.9% and 6.5%, respectively. What is added by this report? This study restored the prevalence of disability and its change trajectory in China during 110 years from 1896 to 2006 across 3 centuries. What are the implications for public health practice? This study realized the innovation of cross-sectional data utilization methods and the expansion of the theory of morbidity transformation while making up for the lack of historical data.

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