This chapter concerns life after disability has occurred. For prevention of disabling injuries and illnesses, see chapter 1 and chapter 13.
Four measures are kept separate. Emergencies and complications concern mortality; subsidies, benefits, and legal claims concern money; education and administrative access concern time; and psychiatric admission, civil capacity, and guardianship concern personal freedom.
WHO estimates that about 1.3 billion people, 16% of the world's population or roughly one in six, experience significant disability. Some disabled people die up to 20 years earlier than people without disabilities. WHO also reports twice the risk of conditions including depression, asthma, diabetes, stroke, obesity, or poor oral health. A substantial part of these inequities comes from barriers to healthcare, education, employment, and access to the outside world rather than impairment alone. This chapter therefore combines health with procedures and rights.
Five topics already covered elsewhere are linked here. For China's disability certificate, its seven categories, and Grades 1–4, see chapter 24, entry 11. For timing of injury-disability assessment, see entry 10. For the two disability allowances, see chapter 7, entry 8. For occupational work-capacity assessment and associated compensation, see chapter 19, entry 15. For long-term care insurance for severe care needs, see chapter 17, entry 7. Although located in the older-relatives chapter, that discussion is not intended to exclude younger eligible people; check the applicable local scheme.
Most entries benefit you and your family, the book's two highest beneficiary categories. Other beneficiaries are identified in Notes.