Paying for Medical Care: The Burden on the Disabled

This chapter discusses the environmental effects of death, and what happens when a corpse becomes part of the natural environment. Bodies decomposed rapidly, producing an unbearable stench. It led both armies to develop techniques for burial, embalming, and transportation of the dead to prevent sickness. The Overland Campaign—especially the battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and the Crater—and its extraordinary number of casualties, is the primary military focus. The chapter also discusses the advancements in medical care to treat wounded soldiers. Large numbers of disabled men had environmental effects as well, such as fewer acres of farmland due to the loss of labor, and expensive government policies to provide pensions for the disabled after the war.

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Organization of Medical Care at the Vascular Surgery of Pre-Stroke Disorders and Emergency Neurosurgical Care Ward

Health and Ecology Issues ◽

10.51523/2708-6011.2019-16-1-16 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 85-89

Author(s):

O. A. Ivantsov

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Vascular Surgery ◽

Medical Care ◽

Vascular Pathology ◽

High Tech ◽

World War ◽

The Past ◽

Modern Methods ◽

The Disabled ◽

Care Ward

The article analyses the organization and results of the activities of the Vascular Surgery of Pre-Stroke Disorders and Emergency Neurosurgical Care Ward, founded at Gomel Regional Clinical Hospital of the Disabled of World War II in 2015, to provide medical care to patients with vascular pathology. It gives the data on the bed fund, staffing and personnel potential of the ward, facilities for complex and high tech surgery, lists modern methods applied in the treatment of patients with vascular disorders. The article summarizes the prospects of the treatment and rehabilitation of this category of patients at the new ward taking into account the experience which has been accumulated for the past three years of its existence.

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What are the financial barriers to medical care among the poor, the sick and the disabled in the Special Administrative Region of China?

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0205794 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (11) ◽

pp. e0205794 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Samuel Yeung-shan Wong ◽

Roger Yat-nork Chung ◽

Dicken Chan ◽

Gary Ka-ki Chung ◽

Jerry Li ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Medical Care ◽

Special Administrative Region ◽

Financial Barriers ◽

Administrative Region ◽

The Poor ◽

The Disabled

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Disaster and Mass Casualty Incident Responses by Doctor Car

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine ◽

10.1017/s1049023x19002590 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (s1) ◽

pp. s121-s121

Author(s):

Masamune Kuno ◽

Kensuke Suzuki ◽

Kyoko Unemoto ◽

Takashi Tagami ◽

Fumihiko Nakayama ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Medical Care ◽

Prehospital Care ◽

Mass Casualty Incident ◽

Mass Casualty ◽

Medical Team ◽

First Case ◽

The Disabled ◽

Care Systems ◽

Prehospital Medical Care ◽

Under Construction

Introduction:Ambulances with physicians, known as Doctor Car, and Tokyo DMAT are the two prehospital care systems responsible for medical team dispatch in the Tokyo area. While there are 25 designated hospitals for DMAT, Doctor Car is only available at four hospitals. Our hospital incorporates both systems. While the prehospital care system must be utilized at the time of disaster, Doctor Car was dispatched 418 times in 2017, and the use of DMAT is less than ten times per year.Aim:To review the past disaster responses of our hospital.Methods:The study reviews three cases where our hospital responded to mass casualty incidents and disasters with either Doctor Car or DMAT. The first case was the treatment of crush syndrome caused by a collapsed parking slope. It took more than 24 hours for the rescue, in which the team treated patients during transport and at the hospital. The second case was our response to a mass stabbing incident committed at a facility for the disabled. In collaboration with the onsite rescue team, we conducted triage, hemostasis, transfusion, etc. The third case was caused by a fire in a building under construction. We provided treatments like triage and tracheal intubation on the spot.Results:Because paramedics are allowed to conduct only a limited amount of treatments, dispatch of the medical team to the site is effective.Discussion:For a medical team to be effective at the dispatched site, the team must be accustomed not only to the specific need of medical care during disasters but also prehospital medical care, which may include the abilities to ensure safety during transport and on-site and adapt to the prehospital environment. Doctor Car is a useful way to realize such abilities.

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The Development of Medical Care in Polish Paralympic Sport

Rehabilitacja Medyczna ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0013.0827 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (4) ◽

pp. 39-48

Author(s):

Wojciech Gawroński ◽

Joanna Sobiecka

Keyword(s):

Medical Care ◽

20Th Century ◽

Sports Medicine ◽

Massage Therapist ◽

Domestic Literature ◽

The Disabled ◽

Athletes With Disabilities ◽

Paralympic Sport ◽

Medicine Analysis ◽

Paralympic Games

Precursory preparticipation examination among athletes took place during the interwar period of the 20th century at university centres, which laid the foundation for present sports and medical counselling. The first study was founded in Lvov in 1924. Initially, care was provided for non-disabled athletes, despite the fact that international sport organizations for the disabled athletes were established in those years. The interest in medical care of athletes with disabilities increased at the end of the previous century, along with the development of Paralympic sport. At the beginning of the 21st century, entire chapters devoted to this subject appeared in sports medicine textbooks. In 2018, in the book titled “Adaptive Sports Medicine”, it was finally confirmed that so-called ‘pre-participation evaluation’ is important in assessing the health status of all athletes with disabilities. However, in Poland, up until the end of the 20th century, people with various disabilities practicing sports were practically not interested in sports medicine. Analysis of available documentation and domestic literature suggests that the development of medical care in Polish Paralympic sport took place in four periods, ranging from rehabilitation to the implementation of mandatory preparticipation examination in the field of sports medicine. Moreover, the Paralympic Games in Atlanta (1996) proved to be an important event in this aspect. For the first time, the Polish representation was accompanied by a specialist in sports medicine and a massage therapist. Apart from this, a breakthrough in the development of medical care was the establishment of the Polish Paralympic Committee in 1998, which undertook many initiatives in this area. However, it was only in 2012, following the Regulation of the Minister of Health from 2011, that obligatory preparticipation examination in the field of sports medicine were enforced for all Polish athletes and representatives of the Paralympic team. But unfortunately, to this day, medical care is stock and limited to the years of paralympic games.

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Research on Medical Ethics of Disabled

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202018503028 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 185 ◽

pp. 03028

Author(s):

Xiaoxiao Deng ◽

Weiwei Liu ◽

Xin Zhao

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Medical Ethics ◽

Medical Care ◽

21St Century ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Disabled People ◽

Open Mind ◽

Care Services ◽

The Disabled ◽

Laws And Policies

The 15-20% of the world's population has certain disability. They have treated bad, looked low, ignored beyond their law, educations and medical care has been denied, also have been underestimated. This is 21st century, people are being kind and helpful in many places, the disabled are achieving in all fields but still some with not the open mind are struggling to accept disabled people even their parents in some cases. Government and science had helped them in uncountable things and also been a devil in number of things. Government introduced laws and policies favouring disabled people. Science and technology helped them to do things which they can’t. Separate medical care services and welfare organisations are there to help for disabled people in several ways including education and insurance. In India, human rights commission is there to give a shout to disabled people rights and also to debate about their dignity. But is this good enough for their life. Technology can do more than this to make their life even better and better. Government can implement strict laws and bills against people who are discriminating and harassment on disabled.

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Medical care and clinical practice for disabled elderly

Frontiers of Nursing ◽

10.1515/fon-2018-0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 7-16

Author(s):

Rui-Fang Zhu ◽

Shi-Fan Han

Keyword(s):

Clinical Practice ◽

Medical Care ◽

Elderly People ◽

Nursing Practice ◽

Population Aging ◽

Mental Disability ◽

Disabled Elderly ◽

The Disabled ◽

The Common ◽

Basic Concepts

Abstract At present, with the continuous development of the trend of population aging worldwide, more elderly people are increasingly facing serious life disorders caused by physical and mental disability. In this study, the common symptoms and the nursing practice related to diseases of the disabled elderly are reviewed with reference to the basic concepts of disability care and the current situation of domestic and foreign research, which is expected to provide the basis for the construction of a new model of disability nursing.

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