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Counting disability: emerging consensus on the Washington Group questionnaire

GROCE, Nora
MONT, Daniel
2017

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The issuing of a statement by the Interagency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicators in Geneva, a group of leading UN agencies, civil society actors, and independent experts strongly supporting the Washington Group on Disability Statistics’ Short Set of Questions (WGSS) is noted and a short explanation of the questions is provided.

 

The Lancet Global Health VOLUME 5, ISSUE 7, PE649-E650, JULY 01, 2017

https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30207-3

Consigned to the margins: A call for global action to challenge intellectual disability stigma

SCIOR, K
HAMID, A
HASTINGS, R
WERNER, S
BELTON C
LANIYAN, A
PATEL, M
GROCE, N
KETT, M
May 2016

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To determine current issues related to persons with intellectual disabilities, we undertook a global study, examining government action as reported to the CRPD Committee and gathering data from 667 disability experts and organisations from 88 countries regarding the extent to which low awareness of intellectual disability and stigma are continuing concerns, and what is being done to tackle these concerns

The Lancet, Global Health, Vol 4, Issue 5, PE294-E295, May 01, 2016

Disability and the training of health professionals

GROCE, Nora
SHAKESPEARE, Tom
LEZZONI, Lisa I
2009

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Evidence shows that people with disabilities often rate their own quality of life much higher than others rate their quality of life: subjective satisfaction of disabled people is usually comparable to that of non disabled people. [...] physicians and other healthcare professionals need to accept that many people with disabilities, particularly where their health conditions are congenital or long term, do not necessarily perceive their disability as a problem or pathology.

The Lancet
Volume 374, Issue 9704, 28 November–4 December 2009, Pages 1815-1816

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