Session 148:
The demography of disability: setting new directions
Chair: Mary Chamie, United Nations
Developing internationally comparable general disability measures: the Washington Group on disability statistics • Jennifer Madans, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC ; Barbara Altman, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
People with disability in Brazil: a look at 2000 Census results • Alicia Bercovich, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE)
Disability in Mauritius - pattern, trend and policy implications • Ramachandran Koduvayur V, Independant Consultant ; Jumoondar Sunkur
Disability in biodemographic context: fresh insights from experimental research on fruit flies • James R. Carey, University of California, Davis ; Nikos Papadopoulos, University of Thessaly
Newborns and intellectual disability • Dagmar Dzurova, Charles University, Prague ; Vladimir Gregor, MUDR, Prague ; Antonin Sipek, MUDR, Prague
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