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  2. Serious adverse event - Wikipedia

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    Research suggests that these events are often inadequately reported in publicly available reports. [4] Because of the lack of these data and uncertainty about methods for synthesising them, individuals conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of therapeutic interventions often unknowingly overemphasise health benefit. [ 5 ]

  3. Disability - Wikipedia

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    The model asserts that disability does not necessarily mean a reduced spectrum of operations. Rather, disability is often defined according to thresholds set on a continuum of disability. [46] The moral model refers to the attitude that people are morally responsible for their own disability. [47]

  4. Four stages of competence - Wikipedia

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    Though the individual does not understand or know how to do something, they recognize the deficit, as well as the value of a new skill in addressing the deficit. The making of mistakes can be integral to the learning process at this stage. [1] Conscious competence The individual understands or knows how to do something.

  5. Substitute Decisions Act - Wikipedia

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    Incapacity is the term for a person who cannot make these decisions. In terms of personal care, incapacity is defined as not being able to "understand information that is relevant to making a decision concerning his or her own health care, nutrition, shelter, clothing, hygiene or safety, or is not able to appreciate the reasonably foreseeable ...

  6. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    [citation needed] For example, crazy should be avoided in describing persons or their behaviors, but is less likely to cause offense if used as an intensifier as in "crazy speed". [4] For some terms, the grammar structure of their use determine if they are harmful.

  7. Disability and poverty - Wikipedia

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    Man with disabilities in Bangladesh. A multitude of studies have been shown to demonstrate a significant rate of disability among individuals living in poverty. The evidence on the association between disability and poverty was recently reviewed in the United Nations' first Flagship Report on Disability and Development [1] The association between disability and poverty has been shown to be ...

  8. Social Security Disability Insurance - Wikipedia

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    Social Security Disability Insurance (SSD or SSDI) is a payroll tax-funded federal insurance program of the United States government.It is managed by the Social Security Administration and designed to provide monthly benefits to people who have a medically determinable disability (physical or mental) that restricts their ability to be employed.

  9. Incapacity Benefit - Wikipedia

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    In 1995, the Conservative Secretary of State for Social Security, Peter Lilley, abolished Invalidity Benefit for fresh claims and replaced it with Incapacity Benefit after the Prime Minister of the day, John Major, had complained about the burgeoning caseload, saying: "Frankly, it beggars belief that so many more people have suddenly become invalids, especially at a time when the health of the ...