PHYS THER
Vol. 90, No. 3, March 2010, pp. 324-325
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.2010.90.3.324
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Improving the Evidence Base for Physical Therapy Disability Interventions

Alan M. Jette and Nancy Latham


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Disability is an emerging global issue, as reflected by the first joint World Health Organization (WHO)–World Bank Report on Disability, Rehabilitation, and Inclusion, scheduled to be released by WHO in 2010. Some estimates suggest that 10% of the world's population has some form of disability—but that figure excludes the families who are affected by a member's disability.1 According to 2005 US Census Bureau statistics, 54 million (18.7%) people in the United States have some level of disability.2 That number will grow significantly over the next 20 years as the baby-boom generation enters late life, when the risk of disability is greatest.

People with disabilities comprise the largest and arguably the most important health care consumer group in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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