Measuring disability and monitoring the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities : the work of the Washington group on disability statistics

MADANS, Jennifer H
LOEB, Mitchell E
ALTMAN, Barbara M

Publication Date 

April 2010
8 p

This paper describes "the work of the Washington Group and explicates the applicability of its approach and the questions developed for monitoring the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities"
BMC Public Health, Vol 11, Suppl 4

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https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-1...

Keywords 

Disability and social diversity; persons with disabilities; Global picture; disability indicators and data; Human rights; rights; Politics government and economics; government and politics; Programme/ Project; needs/ market assessment; Research; data collection; disability studies; survey; washington group questions

Regional Focus 

Worldwide

Language 

English

Type of material 

text

Content type 

research; paper

CRPD 

CRPD: general

Publisher 

BioMed Central

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