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Health expectancy: first workshop of the International Healthy Life Expectancy Network (REVES)
- Editors:
- ROBINE Jean-Marie, BLANCHET Madeleine, DOWD John
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 188p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at various studies devoted to disability-free life expectancy. Part 1 contains papers on: expectation of life without disability measured from OPCS disability surveys; summary of results of calculation of life expectancy free of disability in the Netherlands 1981-85; Health expectancy in Quebec 1987; recent values of disability-free life expectancy in the United States; health expectancy in Canada; data from Switzerland. Part 2 contains papers on the different types of disability-free life expectancy and the methods of calculation. Part 3 examines the interpretation of these calculations and part 4 at the uses of disability-free life expectancy.
From control to choice
- Author:
- HEATON Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.3.92, 1992, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A service user comments critically on a Quality of Life seminar organised by the north west ADSS which was designed to help improve services for disabled people, and service users were invited to voice their opinions and be consulted by service providers.
The needs and quality of life of young persons with disabilities in the Camberwell area of South East London
- Author:
- DOYLE Yvonne
- Publisher:
- The Author
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 120p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research study on the young physically disabled in the Camberwell Health Authority area. Concludes by discussing the implications of the survey results for local services.