Disability, Impairment and Handicap

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Disability, Impairment and Handicap
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Consequences of Disease

• The response to illness
• Concept of disease pathological phenomenon
  unrelated to the ill individual.
• Different levels of experience

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Consequences of Disease

• Principle events in the development of illness
• Something abnormal occurs within the individual (
  at birth or acquired later )
• Aetiology ? pathology ? manifestation ( symptoms
  signs)
• Someone becomes aware of such occurrence
• Pathological state is exteriorized

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Consequences of Disease

• Awareness of disease manifestation is usually by
  the individual.
• Pathological state is then called ( clinical
  disease)
• Performance or behavior of individual may be
  altered as a result of awareness
• Change in performance or behavior of the
  individual
• Common activities may become restricted
  (objectification).

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Consequences of Awareness

• Awareness altered behavior performance ?
  place the individual at a disadvantage relative
  to others.
• Socializing of the experience ? handicap

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Integration of Concepts

• Disease or disorder ? impairment
• Distinction illustrates different levels of
  analysis
• Impairment ? Biological
• Disability ? Functional
• Handicap ? Social

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Integration of Concepts

• Impairment loss or abnormality of psychological,
  physiological or anatomical structure or
  function.
• Functional limitation
• Deviations from some norms in the individual
  biomedical status

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Integration of Concepts

• Disability is any restriction or lack (
  resulting from an impairment ) of ability to
  perform an activity in the manner or within the
  range considered normal for a human being.
• Deviation is any restriction in any terms of
  performance of the person , not the organ or
  mechanism

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