Measuring disability and monitoring the un Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: The work of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2011, Pages

  Madans, Jennifer H ^a   Loeb, Mitchell E ^a   Altman, Barbara M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; UNITED NATIONS; UNITED STATES;

DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 79957796428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-S4-S4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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